Test 9 · Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic

oi why do germans say kaiser and russians said tsar?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: oi, kaiser · What happens: say · To what, where: tsar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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	oi	oi	X	Foreign=Yes	5 say	nsubj
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 say	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
4	germans	german	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	kaiser	kaiser	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 russians	cc
8	russians	russian	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kaiser	conj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
10	tsar	tsar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	oi						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	kaiser and russians	tsar					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tsar=Topic

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

Both words come from Caesar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 words	det
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 Caesar	case
5	Caesar	Caesar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	both words			Caesar			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from caesar=Initial_Location

Option 2

Both mean "wolf"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 mean	nsubj
2	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 wolf	punct
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mean	obj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 wolf	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Both	wolf					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic

Option 3

They are Viking words

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 words	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 words	cop
3	Viking	viking	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 words	amod
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	Viking words					tree rules

Option 4

Both come from Hannibal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Hannibal	case
4	Hannibal	Hannibal	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Both			Hannibal			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hannibal=Initial_Location

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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