Test 12 · ★ · Tales of Rome, Horatius at the Bridge: Horatius holds the…

horatius took a dart to the eye and still kept going, lowkey legend

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: horatius · What happens: take, keep, go · To what, where: dart, eye

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 352 «Tales of Rome, Horatius at the Bridge: Horatius holds the bridge alone and saves Rome from Porsena's army» 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	horatius	horatius	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dart	det
4	dart	dart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 eye	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eye	det
7	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 kept	cc
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 kept	advmod
10	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
11	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 kept	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 legend	punct
13	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 legend	compound
14	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	past	horatius	a dart	the eye		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dart=Theme to eye=Destination
2	keep	past	horatius not said here			still	tree rules
3	go	gerund	horatius 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 · ✓ the right answer

he threw his spear at the leading horseman

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 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 spear	nmod:poss
4	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 horseman	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horseman	det
7	leading	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 horseman	amod
8	horseman	horseman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	he	his spear		the leading horseman			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spear=Theme at horseman=Destination
2	lead	gerund							vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition

Option 2

he threw his sword at the nearby man

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 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sword	nmod:poss
4	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 man	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	nearby	nearby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	he	his sword				at the nearby man	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sword=Theme at man=Destination

Option 3

he threw his spear at the leading horseman and then swam across the river with his armor on

The tree, 18 words

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 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 spear	nmod:poss
4	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 horseman	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horseman	det
7	leading	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 horseman	amod
8	horseman	horseman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 swam	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 swam	advmod
11	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	conj
12	across	across	ADP	_	14 river	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 river	det
14	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 swam	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 armor	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 armor	nmod:poss
17	armor	armor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 swam	obl
18	on	on	ADP	_	2 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	he	his spear	the leading horseman			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spear=Theme at horseman=Destination
2	lead	gerund						vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
3	swim	past	he not said here		the river	then	with his armor	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across river=Trajectory

Option 4

he threw his spear at the leading horseman and kept fighting with his shield as the bridge fell

The tree, 18 words

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 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 spear	nmod:poss
4	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 horseman	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horseman	det
7	leading	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 horseman	amod
8	horseman	horseman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 kept	cc
10	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	conj
11	fighting	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 kept	xcomp
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 shield	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 shield	nmod:poss
14	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fighting	obl
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 fell	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bridge	det
17	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fell	nsubj
18	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fighting	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	past	he	his spear	the leading horseman		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spear=Theme at horseman=Destination
2	lead	gerund					vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
3	keep	past	he not said here				tree rules
4	fight	gerund	he not said here			with his shield	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with shield=Co-Agent
5	fall	past	the bridge				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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