Test 9 · ★ · Tales of Rome, Horatius at the Bridge: Horatius holds the…

romans were so grateful, it's giving main character energy

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: romans, it · What happens: be, give · To what, where: main character energy

This is test 9 · ★ 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	romans	roman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grateful	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grateful	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 grateful	advmod
4	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 giving	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 giving	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 giving	aux
8	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 grateful	advcl
9	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 energy	amod
10	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 energy	compound
11	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 giving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	romans					grateful property	tree rules
2	give	present · progressive	it	main character energy					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=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

they gave horatius land and a statue for saving the city from the great army of Porsena

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	horatius	horatius	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 land	amod
4	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 statue	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 statue	det
7	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 land	conj
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 saving	mark
9	saving	save	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 gave	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 city	det
11	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saving	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 army	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 army	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 army	amod
15	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saving	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Porsena	case
17	Porsena	Porsena	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 army	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	they	horatius land and a statue					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme
2	save	gerund	they not said here	the city		the great army of Porsena			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent city=Theme from army=Source

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

they gave horatius land and a statue for saving the city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	horatius	horatius	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 land	amod
4	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 statue	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 statue	det
7	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 land	conj
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 saving	mark
9	saving	save	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 gave	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 city	det
11	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	they	horatius land and a statue					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme
2	save	gerund	they not said here	the city					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme

Option 3

they gave horatius land and a statue for saving the city and his friends at the bridge

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	horatius	horatius	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 land	amod
4	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 statue	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 statue	det
7	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 land	conj
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 saving	mark
9	saving	save	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 gave	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 city	det
11	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saving	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 friends	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 friends	nmod:poss
14	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 city	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 bridge	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bridge	det
17	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	they	horatius land and a statue					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme
2	save	gerund	they not said here	the city and his friends		the bridge			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent city=Theme at bridge=Asset

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

they gave horatius money and a new house for his work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	horatius	horatius	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 money	amod
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 house	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 house	det
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 house	amod
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 money	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 work	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 work	nmod:poss
11	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	they	horatius money and a new house				for his work	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent money=Theme for work=Asset
2	work		his = he						nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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