Test 3 · ★ · Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads

If Rome had no roads, what would be hardest?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rome · What happens: have, be · To what, where: roads

This is test 3 · ★ 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 roads	det
5	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hardest	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 hardest	obj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hardest	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 hardest	cop
10	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 roads	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Rome	no roads					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient
2	is	would						hard property	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

Moving armies and messages quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Moving	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 messages	cc
4	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 armies	conj
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Moving	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	gerund		armies and messages				quickly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent army=Theme

Option 2

Building houses and temples in the city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 houses	compound
2	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 temples	cc
4	temples	temple	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 houses	conj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 city	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 city	det
7	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 houses	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Growing grapes for wine in the hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	grapes	grape	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Growing	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 wine	case
4	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Growing	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hills	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hills	det
7	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Growing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	gerund		grapes		the hills		for wine	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent grape=Material for wine=Beneficiary

Option 4

Speaking Latin to each other properly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	Latin	Latin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Speaking	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 each	case
4	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	1 Speaking	obl
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 each	fixed
6	properly	properly	ADV	_	1 Speaking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund		Latin				to each; properly property	tree rules

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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