Test 2 · ★ · Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cincinnatus: a plowman…

lowkey, who did the Romans call on to save them?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: lowkey, Romans · What happens: do, call on, save · To what, where: Romans

This is test 2 · ★ 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Romans	det
6	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 call	nsubj
7	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 call	compound:prt
9	to	to	PART	_	10 save	mark
10	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 call	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 save	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	lowkey		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	call on speech: assert	present	the Romans		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	save	to-infinitive	the Romans not said here	Romans = roman	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cincinnatus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cincinnatus	cincinnatus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Lucius Flaccus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lucius	Lucius	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Flaccus	Flaccus	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Lucius	flat

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

Option 3

The wise old general from the hills nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 general	det
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 general	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 general	amod
4	general	general	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 hills	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hills	det
7	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 general	nmod
8	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	4 general	advmod

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

Option 4

The old farmer who was plowing his land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 farmer	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 farmer	amod
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 plowing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 plowing	aux
6	plowing	plow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 farmer	acl:relcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 land	nmod:poss
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plowing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plow	past · progressive	the old farmer	farmer's land					vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent land=Initial_Location

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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