Test 6 · Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic

Why do we have a month called July?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: we · What happens: have, call · To what, where: month · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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 have	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 month	det
6	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 month	acl
8	July	July	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 called	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · do-support	we				month		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	call	participle		a month not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

It is named after Julius Caesar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 named	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 named	aux:pass
3	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	5 Julius	case
5	Julius	Julius	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 named	obl
6	Caesar	Caesar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Julius	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	present · passive		It			after Julius		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

It was named by the Vikings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 named	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 named	aux:pass
3	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 Vikings	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Vikings	det
6	Vikings	Viking	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 named	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	past · passive	the Vikings	It					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 3

It is named after a Roman river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 named	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 named	aux:pass
3	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	7 river	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 river	det
6	Roman	Roman	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 river	compound
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 named	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	present · passive		It			after a Roman river		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

It means "hot month" in Greek

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 month	punct
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 month	amod
5	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 month	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Greek	case
8	Greek	Greek	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 means	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It				month	in Greek	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in greek=Attribute

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