Test 1 · Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity
in Gladiator everyone dies in every fight. was it like that?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: everyone · What happens: die, be · To what, where: fight
This is test 1 of lesson 15 «Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity» 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 | in | in | ADP | _ | 2 Gladiator | case |
| 2 | Gladiator | Gladiator | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dies | obl |
| 3 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 dies | nsubj |
| 4 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 fight | case |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 fight | det |
| 7 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dies | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dies | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 it | cop |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dies | advcl |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 that | case |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 dies | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 dies | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | everyone | in every fight; like that; in Gladiator | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in gladiator=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | everyone not said here | fight | 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 right answer
No, not every fight ended in death
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 ended | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ended | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 ended | advmod |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 fight | det |
| 5 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ended | nsubj |
| 6 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 death | case |
| 8 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ended | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not end | past | every fight | death | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 2
Yes, and the crowd always voted death
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 voted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 voted | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 voted | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 crowd | det |
| 5 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 voted | nsubj |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 voted | advmod |
| 7 | voted | vote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 voted | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vote | past | the crowd | death | always property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Theme |
Option 3
Yes, every single fight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 fight | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 fight | det |
| 4 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fight | amod |
| 5 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
No, nobody was ever hurt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 hurt | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hurt | aux:pass |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 hurt | advmod |
| 6 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | past · passive | nobody | ever | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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