Test 8 · ★ · Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cincinnatus: a plowman…

be real, who was the general who never broke his word?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, general, his · What happens: be, not break, word · To what, where: general, word

This is test 8 · ★ 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	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	cop
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 general	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 general	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 general	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 general	det
7	general	general	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 real	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 broke	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 broke	advmod
10	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 general	acl:relcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 word	nmod:poss
12	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 broke	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here		real property	tree rules
2	is a	past		the general		tree rules
3	not break	past	the general	his word		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Patient
4	word		his = he			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer

Regulus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Regulus	regulus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Brutus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brutus	Brutus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The old farmer who ruled Rome for sixteen days

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	5 ruled	nsubj
5	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 farmer	acl:relcl
6	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ruled	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 days	case
8	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 days	nummod
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ruled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	past	the old farmer	Rome			day		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent rome=Result

Option 4

The consul who guarded the southern coast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 consul	det
2	consul	consul	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 guarded	nsubj
4	guarded	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 consul	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 coast	det
6	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 coast	amod
7	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guarded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	past	the consul	the southern coast					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coast=Beneficiary

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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