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Test 7 · Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic

Hannibal beat Rome many times. Who won in the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Hannibal · What happens: beat, win · To what, where: Rome, end

This is test 7 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

Sentence 1: Hannibal beat Rome many times.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hannibal	Hannibal	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 beat	nsubj
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 beat	obj
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 times	amod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 beat	obl:unmarked
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 beat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	Hannibal	Rome			time		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rome=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.

Sentence 2: Who won in the end?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 won	nsubj
2	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 end	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 end	det
5	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 won	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 won	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past					in the end		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in end=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Rome defeated Carthage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 defeated	nsubj
2	defeated	defeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Carthage	Carthage	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 defeated	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	defeat	past	Rome	Carthage					tree rules

Option 2

Carthage conquered Rome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carthage	Carthage	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 conquered	nsubj
2	conquered	conquer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 conquered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conquer	past	Carthage	Rome					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rome=Patient

Option 3

Nobody, it was a draw in the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 draw	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nobody	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 draw	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 draw	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 draw	det
6	draw	draw	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 draw	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Nobody	a draw			in the end		tree rules

Option 4

The Greeks, who beat both of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Greeks	det
2	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 beat	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 beat	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 beat	nsubj
5	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 beat	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 both	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	the Greeks	both					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location both=Theme

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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