Test 7 · ★ · Tales of Rome, Horatius at the Bridge: Horatius holds the…
damocles was like, ok I wanna be you for a day, then he got scared
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: damocles, he · What happens: wanna, be, get · To what, where: you
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | damocles | damocle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wanna | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 like | cop |
| 3 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 1 damocles | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 damocles | punct |
| 5 | ok | ok | INTJ | _ | 7 wanna | discourse |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 wanna | nsubj |
| 7 | wanna | wanna | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 you | cop |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 wanna | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 day | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wanna | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 got | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 got | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 got | nsubj |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wanna | parataxis |
| 17 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 got | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wanna | present | damocles | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get | past | he | then | scared property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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
he got scared
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 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 got | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | scared property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
he went pale
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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 went | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | he | pale property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the sword made his face go pale and he wanted to leave
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sword | det |
| 2 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 face | nmod:poss |
| 5 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | xcomp |
| 7 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 go | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wanted | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wanted | nsubj |
| 10 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 leave | mark |
| 12 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wanted | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the sword | sword's face | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | sword's face not said here | pale property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | want | past | sword | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | sword not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
the feast made his face go red and he wanted to sleep
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 feast | det |
| 2 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 face | nmod:poss |
| 5 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | xcomp |
| 7 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 go | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wanted | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wanted | nsubj |
| 10 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 sleep | mark |
| 12 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wanted | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the feast | feast's face | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | feast's face not said here | red property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | want | past | feast | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sleep not said to happen | to-infinitive | feast not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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