Test 2 · ★ · Roman Tales, Androclus and the Lion: a runaway slave befri…

Ngl, why'd Regulus even go back if they let him go?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl, they, Regulus · What happens: go back, let, go · To what, where: Regulus

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 351 «Roman Tales, Androclus and the Lion: a runaway slave befriends a lion and wins his freedom in Rome» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 go	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 go	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
5	Regulus	Regulus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 go	nsubj
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 let	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 let	nsubj
11	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 go	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 let	obj
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	go back	would	Ngl		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	let a condition, not said to happen	present	they	Regulus	tree rules
3	go	infinitive	Regulus not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

Cause the senate made him go back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 senate	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 senate	det
3	senate	senate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cause	infinitive			vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	make	past	the Cause senate	him = he	tree rules
3	go back	infinitive	him = he not said here		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Cause the Carthaginians would have hunted him down wherever he hid in the whole empire

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hunted	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Carthaginians	det
3	Carthaginians	Carthaginian	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 hunted	nsubj:pass
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hunted	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 hunted	aux
6	hunted	hunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 hid	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hunted	obj
8	down	down	ADP	_	6 hunted	compound:prt
9	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	11 hid	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hid	nsubj
11	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 empire	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 empire	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 empire	amod
15	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt down	would · infinitive · perfect · passive		the Carthaginians					tree rules
2	hide	past	he			the whole empire		wherever property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in empire=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He promised, and a Roman keeps his word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 keeps	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 keeps	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Roman	det
6	Roman	Roman	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 keeps	nsubj
7	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 promised	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 word	nmod:poss
9	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keeps	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	He		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	keep	present	a Roman	Roman's word	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
3	word		Roman		nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

He was scared of Rome's laws

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 laws	case
5	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 laws	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Rome	case
7	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					of Rome's laws; scared property	tree rules

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