Test 9 · ★ · Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cincinnatus: a plowman…

mate, where did Regulus get taken as a prisoner?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: take · To what, where: Regulus

This is test 9 · ★ 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 taken	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 taken	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 taken	aux
5	Regulus	Regulus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 taken	nsubj:pass
6	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 taken	aux:pass
7	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 mate	acl:relcl
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 prisoner	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 prisoner	det
10	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taken	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · passive · do-support		Regulus				as a prisoner	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as prisoner=Attribute

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

Across the sea to a foreign land in Africa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Across	across	ADP	_	3 sea	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sea	det
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 land	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 land	det
6	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 land	amod
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sea	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Africa	case
9	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 land	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To Carthage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	2 Carthage	case
2	Carthage	Carthage	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Back to the prison in the city of the enemy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Back	back	ADV	_	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 prison	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prison	det
4	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Back	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 city	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 city	det
7	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 prison	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 enemy	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 enemy	det
10	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 city	nmod

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

Option 4

To Alexandria

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	2 Alexandria	case
2	Alexandria	Alexandria	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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