Test 7 · ★ · Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cincinnatus: a plowman…

wild, what did Cinci do after saving Rome?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cinci · What happens: do, save · To what, where: Rome

This is test 7 · ★ 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	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	Cinci	Cinci	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wild	conj
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	8 saving	mark
8	saving	save	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 do	advcl
9	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 saving	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wild	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Cinci						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	save	gerund	Cinci not said here	Rome					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rome=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

Left Rome and returned to his little farm again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Left	Left	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Rome	compound
2	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 returned	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	2 Rome	cc
4	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 farm	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 farm	nmod:poss
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 farm	amod
8	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 returned	obl
9	again	again	ADV	_	4 returned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	Left Rome				again	to Rome's little farm result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to farm=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Gave the power back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 power	det
3	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gave	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	1 Gave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give back	past		the power					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Led the army home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 army	det
3	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Led	obj
4	home	home	ADV	_	1 Led	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	past		the army				home property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Theme

Option 4

Marched the army back to the mountains to rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 army	det
3	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Marched	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	1 Marched	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 mountains	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mountains	det
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Marched	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 rest	mark
9	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Marched	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	march back	past		the army		the mountains			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent army=Theme to mountain=Trajectory
2	rest	to-infinitive							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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