Test 3 · ★ · Tales of Rome, Horatius at the Bridge: Horatius holds the…

caesar's village mayor was so extra, struting around like a boss

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: village mayor · What happens: be, strute around

This is test 3 · ★ 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	caesar	caesar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mayor	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 caesar	case
3	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mayor	compound
4	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 extra	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 extra	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 extra	advmod
7	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 struting	punct
9	struting	strute	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 extra	advcl
10	around	around	ADV	_	9 struting	advmod
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 boss	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 boss	det
13	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 struting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	caesar's village mayor					extra property	tree rules
2	strute around	gerund	caesar's village mayor not said here					like a boss; around property	tree rules

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

caesar said he'd rather be head of a village than second in rome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	caesar	caesar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 head	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 head	aux
5	rather	rather	ADV	_	7 head	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 head	cop
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 village	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 village	det
10	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 head	nmod
11	than	than	ADP	_	12 second	case
12	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 said	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 rome	case
14	rome	rome	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	caesar			rome		than second	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in rome=Manner
2	is a	would	caesar	head				of a village	tree rules

Option 2

he'd rather be mayor

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	5 mayor	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 mayor	aux
3	rather	rather	ADV	_	5 mayor	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 mayor	cop
5	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	he	mayor					tree rules

Option 3

caesar said he'd rather lead a village than follow in rome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	caesar	caesar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lead	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 lead	aux
5	rather	rather	ADV	_	6 lead	advmod
6	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 village	det
8	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lead	obj
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	10 follow	mark
10	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 lead	xcomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 rome	case
12	rome	rome	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 follow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	caesar			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lead	would	caesar	a village		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent village=Patient clause=Result
3	follow	infinitive	a village not said here		rome	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in rome=Location

Option 4

caesar said he'd prefer to rule a town than be a senator

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	caesar	caesar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 prefer	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 prefer	aux
5	prefer	prefer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 rule	mark
7	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 prefer	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 town	det
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rule	obj
10	than	than	ADP	_	13 senator	case
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 senator	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 senator	det
13	senator	senator	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rule	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	caesar			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	prefer	would	caesar			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	rule not said to happen	to-infinitive	caesar not said here	a town		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme
4	is	infinitive			than a senator	tree rules

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