Test 8 · Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic
Senators killed Caesar in 44 BC. What were they afraid of?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Senators · What happens: kill, be · To what, where: Caesar, 44
This is test 8 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: Senators killed Caesar in 44 BC.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Senators | senator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 killed | nsubj |
| 2 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Caesar | Caesar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 killed | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 44 | case |
| 5 | 44 | 44 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 killed | obl |
| 6 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 44 | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 killed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | Senators | Caesar | 44 BC | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caesar=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: What were they afraid of?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 afraid | obj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 afraid | cop |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 afraid | nsubj |
| 4 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 afraid | case |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Senators = senator | afraid property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
That he would free all slaves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 free | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 free | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 free | aux |
| 4 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 slaves | det |
| 6 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 free | obj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
That he would lose a war
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 lose | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lose | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 lose | aux |
| 4 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 war | det |
| 6 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lose | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | would | That | a war | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Eventuality |
Option 3
That he would leave Rome
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 leave | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 leave | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 leave | aux |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 leave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | would | That | Rome | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rome=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
That he wanted to be king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 king | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 king | cop |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | That | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | That not said here | king | tree rules |
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