Exam question 1 · Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic

Identify the person who in 27 BC became the first emperor of Rome.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, person · What happens: identify, become · To what, where: person, first emperor, 27

This is exam question 1 of lesson 13 «Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic» of the history course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 person	det
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 became	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 27	case
6	27	27	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 became	obl
7	BC	BC	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 became	nsubj
8	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 person	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 emperor	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 emperor	amod
11	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 became	xcomp
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Rome	case
13	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 emperor	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the person					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent person=Theme
2	become	past	the person	the first emperor of Rome				in 27 result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 27=Result

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

Hannibal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hannibal	Hannibal	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Augustus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Augustus	augustus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Romulus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Romulus	Romulus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Julius Caesar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Julius	Julius	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Caesar	Caesar	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Julius	flat

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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