Test 12 · ★ · Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cincinnatus: a plowman…

dude, what did Regulus say his first duty was to?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Regulus · What happens: say · To what, where: dude · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	Regulus	Regulus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 dude	conj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 duty	nmod:poss
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 duty	amod
9	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 to	cop
11	to	to	ADP	_	9 duty	fixed
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Regulus	dude					vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme duty=Manner

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 · ✓ the right answer

His country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 country	nmod:poss
2	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

His god

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 god	nmod:poss
2	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

His family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 family	nmod:poss
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

His king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 king	nmod:poss
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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