Test 10 · ★ · Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cincinnatus: a plowman…

bruv, what did Carthage want Regulus to tell Rome?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Carthage, Regulus · What happens: want, tell · To what, where: Regulus, Rome · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 350 «Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cincinnatus: a plowman leaves his field to save Rome and then gives back his power» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	dep
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 want	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
5	Carthage	Carthage	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Regulus	Regulus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 want	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 tell	mark
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 want	xcomp
10	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	Carthage	Regulus					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	Regulus not said here		Rome				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rome=Recipient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

That Carthage had won the war

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Carthage	det
2	Carthage	Carthage	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 won	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 won	aux
4	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 war	det
6	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 won	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past · perfect	that Carthage	the war					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

That they had gained nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 gained	nsubj:pass
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gained	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gained	aux
4	gained	gain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 gained	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gain	past · perfect · passive		That					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary nothing=Theme

Option 3

That Rome had lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Rome	det
2	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lost	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect · passive		that Rome					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 4

That the war was lost for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 war	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 war	det
3	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	aux:pass
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		that war				for them = they	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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