Test 3 · Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic

If one consul wanted to start a silly war and the other said no, what happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one consul, other · What happens: want, start, say, happen · To what, where: silly war · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 of lesson 13 «Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic» of the history 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 wanted	mark
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 consul	nummod
3	consul	consul	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 start	mark
6	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 war	det
8	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 war	amod
9	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 start	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 other	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wanted	conj
14	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	17 happened	discourse
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 happened	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 happened	nsubj
17	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want	past	one consul		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	start not said to happen	to-infinitive	one consul not said here	a silly war	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	past	the other		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	happen	past			vn occur-48.3-1 «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 king decided

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 decided	nsubj
3	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	past	the king						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The Senate was closed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Senate	det
2	Senate	Senate	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 closed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 closed	aux:pass
4	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	past · passive		the Senate					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Neither could act alone, so it was blocked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	3 act	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 act	aux
3	act	act	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 act	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 blocked	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 blocked	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 blocked	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 blocked	aux:pass
9	blocked	block	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 act	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	act	could						alone, neither property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	block	past · passive		it					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

The first consul won anyway and marched off to war

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 consul	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 consul	amod
3	consul	consul	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 won	nsubj
4	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 won	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 marched	cc
7	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 won	conj
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 marched	compound:prt
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 war	case
10	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 marched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	the first consul					anyway property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	march off	past	the first consul not said here					to war result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to war=Result

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