Test 13 · ★ · Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cincinnatus: a plowman…

lol, did the Fathers keep the power Cincinnatus gave them?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Fathers, Cincinnatus · What happens: keep, give · To what, where: power, Fathers

This is test 13 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 keep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lol	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Fathers	det
5	Fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 keep	nsubj
6	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 power	det
8	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
9	Cincinnatus	Cincinnatus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	ccomp
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	iobj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	the Fathers						tree rules
2	give	past	Cincinnatus	the power	Fathers = father				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient power=Theme

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

No, it was never returned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 returned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 returned	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 returned	aux:pass
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 returned	advmod
6	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not return	past · passive		it					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, they got it back from him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get back	past	they	it				from him = he	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from he=Source

Option 3

Yes, they kept it for years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 years	case
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	they	it			year		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

No, they kept it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	they	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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