Exam question 1 · Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity

Identify the volcanic eruption whereby the town of Pompeii was interred in the year 79.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, inter · To what, where: volcanic eruption, town

This is exam question 1 of lesson 15 «Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity» of the history course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 eruption	det
3	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eruption	amod
4	eruption	eruption	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	whereby	whereby	ADV	PronType=Int	11 interred	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 town	det
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 interred	nsubj:pass
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Pompeii	case
9	Pompeii	Pompeii	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 town	nmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 interred	aux:pass
11	interred	inter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 eruption	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 year	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 year	det
14	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 interred	obl
15	79	79	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 year	flat
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the volcanic eruption					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent eruption=Theme
2	inter	past · passive		the town of Pompeii			year	whereby 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 · ← Mova's choice

The eruption of Etna

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eruption	det
2	eruption	eruption	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Etna	case
4	Etna	Etna	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 eruption	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	erupt		Etna						nom eruption «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

The eruption of Hekla

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eruption	det
2	eruption	eruption	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Hekla	case
4	Hekla	Hekla	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 eruption	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	erupt		Hekla						nom eruption «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

The eruption of Krakatoa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eruption	det
2	eruption	eruption	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Krakatoa	case
4	Krakatoa	Krakatoa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 eruption	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	erupt		Krakatoa						nom eruption «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The eruption of Vesuvius

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eruption	det
2	eruption	eruption	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Vesuvius	case
4	Vesuvius	Vesuvius	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 eruption	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	erupt		Vesuvius						nom eruption «event intransitive»: of=agent

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