Test 6 · ★ · Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads
Boudica is still remembered in Britain. Why?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: remember · To what, where: Boudica, Britain
This is test 6 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Boudica is still remembered in Britain.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boudica | Boudica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 remembered | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 remembered | aux:pass |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 remembered | advmod |
| 4 | remembered | remember | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Britain | case |
| 6 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 remembered | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remembered | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | present · passive | Boudica | Britain | still | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=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: Why?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
As the inventor of roads
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 inventor | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 inventor | det |
| 3 | inventor | inventor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 roads | case |
| 5 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 inventor | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
As a symbol of courage against injustice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 symbol | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 symbol | det |
| 3 | symbol | symbol | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 courage | case |
| 5 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 symbol | nmod |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 7 injustice | case |
| 7 | injustice | injustice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 courage | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
As the general who built Hadrian's Wall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 general | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 general | det |
| 3 | general | general | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 built | obl |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 built | nsubj |
| 5 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Hadrian | Hadrian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Wall | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Hadrian | case |
| 8 | Wall | Wall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 built | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | Hadrian's Wall | as the general | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Product |
Option 4
As the very first Roman emperor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADP | _ | 6 emperor | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 emperor | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 first | advmod |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 emperor | amod |
| 5 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 emperor | amod |
| 6 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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