Test 4 · Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic

Why did Romans hate the word king for centuries?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Romans · What happens: hate · To what, where: word king

This is test 4 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 hate	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hate	aux
3	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 hate	nsubj
4	hate	hate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 king	compound
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hate	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 centuries	case
9	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hate	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past · do-support	Romans	the word king			century		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus

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

They had thrown out a cruel king

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	3 thrown	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thrown	aux
3	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 thrown	compound:prt
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 king	det
6	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 king	amod
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thrown	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw out	past · perfect · passive		They					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination king=Theme

Option 2

The word was rude in Latin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rude	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rude	cop
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Latin	case
6	Latin	Latin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 rude	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the word			Latin		rude property	tree rules

Option 3

Kings were Greek

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 Greek	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Greek	cop
3	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Kings					greek property	tree rules

Option 4

They had never had a king

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	4 had	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 had	advmod
4	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	past · perfect	They	a king					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient

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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