Test 5 · Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity

Why might Christianity spread so well through the Roman Empire?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Christianity · What happens: spread · To what, where: Roman Empire

This is test 5 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 spread	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 spread	aux
3	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spread	nsubj
4	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 well	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 spread	advmod
7	through	through	ADP	_	10 Empire	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Empire	det
9	Roman	Roman	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Empire	compound
10	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spread	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 spread	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	might	Christianity			the Roman Empire		well property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through empire=Location

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

Everyone was forced at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 forced	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 forced	aux:pass
3	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 forced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	force	past · passive		Everyone					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient

Option 2

It was only taught in Judea

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 taught	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 taught	aux:pass
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 taught	advmod
4	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Judea	case
6	Judea	Judea	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 taught	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past · passive		It		Judea			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Roman roads and one big empire helped people travel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 roads	amod
2	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 helped	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 empire	cc
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 empire	nummod
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 empire	amod
6	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 roads	conj
7	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 helped	obj
9	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 helped	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past	Roman roads and one big empire	people					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	travel	infinitive	people not said here						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The emperors were all Christian right from the very start

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 emperors	det
2	emperors	emperor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 Christian	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Christian	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 Christian	advmod
5	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	right	right	ADV	_	5 Christian	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 start	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 start	det
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 start	advmod
10	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Christian	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the emperors			the start		all, christian, right property	tree rules

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