Test 6 · Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity

If the bathhouse is shut for a week, what would Romans miss?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bathhouse, week · What happens: be, miss

This is test 6 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 shut	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bathhouse	det
3	bathhouse	bathhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shut	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shut	cop
5	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 week	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 week	det
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shut	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 miss	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 miss	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 miss	aux
12	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 miss	compound
13	miss	miss	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 week	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the bathhouse				week	shut property	tree rules
2	miss	would	a week and Romans miss						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

Their chariot races and gladiator shows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 races	nmod:poss
2	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 races	compound
3	races	race	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 shows	cc
5	gladiator	gladiator	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shows	compound
6	shows	show	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 races	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	race		Their = they						nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Washing, exercise and chatting with friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 exercise	punct
3	exercise	exercise	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Washing	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 chatting	cc
5	chatting	chat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Washing	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 friends	case
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chatting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chat speech: other	gerund						with friends	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with friend=Co-Agent

Option 3

Their only meals of the day, cooked in the pools

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 meals	nmod:poss
2	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 meals	amod
3	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cooked	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 day	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meals	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cooked	punct
8	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 pools	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pools	det
11	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cooked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	participle · passive		Their only meals of the day				in the pools	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient in pool=Instrument

Option 4

School lessons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	School	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lessons	compound
2	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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