Test 4 · ★ · Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cincinnatus: a plowman…

wait, why was the Roman army stuck?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Roman army · What happens: wait, be, stick

This is test 4 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 wait	parataxis
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 why	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 army	det
6	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 army	amod
7	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stuck	nsubj
8	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 why	parataxis
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past		why property	tree rules
3	stick	participle	the Roman army		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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

Lost in fog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 fog	case
3	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle				fog			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in fog=Eventuality

Option 2

Out of food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Out	out	ADP	_	3 food	case
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 food	case
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Trapped in a narrow pass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trapped	trap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 pass	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pass	det
4	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pass	amod
5	pass	pass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Trapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trap	participle				a narrow pass			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in pass=Destination

Option 4

Caught in a deep ravine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 ravine	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ravine	det
4	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ravine	amod
5	ravine	ravine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Caught	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	participle				a deep ravine			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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