Test 5 · ★ · Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cincinnatus: a plowman…

bro, what did the mountain dudes say they would do to Rome?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mountain dudes, dudes · What happens: do, say · To what, where: Rome · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	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	7 dudes	det
6	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dudes	compound
7	dudes	dude	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 do	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 say	ccomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 Rome	case
13	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 do	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	past			bro vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the mountain dudes			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	would	dudes = dude	Rome		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Starve the people out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Starve	starve	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Starve	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	1 Starve	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve out	imperative	you not said here	the people					tree rules

Option 2

Burn the farms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 farms	det
3	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Burn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	imperative	you not said here	the farms					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent farm=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Tear the walls down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tear	tear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 walls	det
3	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tear	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	1 Tear	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear down	imperative	you not said here	the walls					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location wall=Theme

Option 4

Steal the gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gold	det
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Steal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	imperative	you not said here	the gold					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gold=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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