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Test 10 · Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity

Roman wealth depended on unfree people. Which shows that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Roman wealth · What happens: depend, show · To what, where: that

This is test 10 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

Sentence 1: Roman wealth depended on unfree people.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wealth	amod
2	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 depended	nsubj
3	depended	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 people	case
5	unfree	unfree	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 depended	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 depended	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	depend	past	Roman wealth					on unfree people	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on people=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: Which shows that?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 shows	obj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present		that					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Everyone in Rome was paid well for every job they did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 paid	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Rome	case
3	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Everyone	nmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 paid	aux:pass
5	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 paid	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 job	case
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 job	det
9	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	obl
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 did	nsubj
11	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 job	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past · passive		Everyone				for every job; well property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Asset for job=Theme
2	do	past	they	every job not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Enslaved people worked houses, fields and mines

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Enslaved	enslave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 worked	nsubj
3	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 worked	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fields	punct
6	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 houses	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 mines	cc
8	mines	mine	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 houses	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enslave	participle							vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	work	past	Enslaved people	houses and fields and mines					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent house=Material

Option 3

Slavery was banned in Rome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slavery	slavery	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 banned	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 banned	aux:pass
3	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Rome	case
5	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 banned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	past · passive		Slavery		Rome			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

Only animals did any heavy work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 animals	advmod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 work	det
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 work	amod
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	animals	any heavy work					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality

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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