Test 10 · ★ · Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads

Why did Hadrian build a wall across Britain?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Hadrian · What happens: build · To what, where: wall, Britain

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 14 «Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads» 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 build	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 build	aux
3	Hadrian	Hadrian	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 build	nsubj
4	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wall	det
6	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 build	obj
7	across	across	ADP	_	8 Britain	case
8	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 build	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 build	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past · do-support	Hadrian	a wall		Britain			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Product

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

To keep Romans in prison

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 prison	case
5	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		Romans		prison			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent roman=Theme in prison=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To mark the empire's edge and control movement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 mark	mark
2	mark	mark	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 empire	det
4	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 edge	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 empire	case
6	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mark	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 movement	cc
8	control	control	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 movement	compound
9	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 edge	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark	to-infinitive		the empire's edge and control movement					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent edge=Destination

Option 3

To keep the sea out of the farms in the north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 farms	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 farms	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 farms	det
8	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 north	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 north	det
11	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		the sea		the farms		in the north	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sea=Theme out farm=Location

Option 4

To make a road to Scotland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 road	det
4	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Scotland	case
6	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		a road	Scotland				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset road=Product

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