Test 3 · Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity

Why does Pompeii tell us so much about Roman life?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Pompeii · What happens: tell · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 tell	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	Pompeii	Pompeii	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	4 tell	advmod
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 life	case
9	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 life	amod
10	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	Pompeii		us			about Roman life	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent we=Recipient about life=Topic

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

It was never part of Rome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 part	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 part	cop
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 part	advmod
4	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Rome	case
6	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 part	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	It	part				of Rome	tree rules

Option 2

People still live in the old houses today

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 live	advmod
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 houses	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 houses	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 houses	amod
7	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	obl
8	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 live	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	People			the old houses	still; today		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Ash buried it quickly, keeping streets, shops and graffiti

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 buried	nsubj
2	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 buried	obj
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 buried	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 keeping	punct
6	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 buried	advcl
7	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 keeping	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 shops	punct
9	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 streets	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 graffiti	cc
11	graffiti	graffiti	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 streets	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	past	Ash	it				quickly property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	keep	gerund	Ash not said here	streets and shops and graffiti					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent street=Theme

Option 4

The Romans wrote a long guidebook to the town for visitors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Romans	det
2	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 wrote	nsubj
3	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 guidebook	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 guidebook	amod
6	guidebook	guidebook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 town	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 town	det
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 visitors	case
11	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wrote	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	the Romans	a long guidebook				to the town; for visitors	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent guidebook=Result for visitor=Beneficiary

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