Test 7 · Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity
Fans scream for the Greens at the Circus Maximus. What is that most like today?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Fans · What happens: scream, be · To what, where: Circus Maximus
This is test 7 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: Fans scream for the Greens at the Circus Maximus.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fans | fan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 scream | nsubj |
| 2 | scream | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 Greens | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Greens | det |
| 5 | Greens | Green | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 scream | obl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Maximus | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Maximus | det |
| 8 | Circus | Circus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Maximus | compound |
| 9 | Maximus | Maximus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 scream | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 scream | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | present | Fans | the Circus Maximus | for the Greens | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at maximus=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.
Sentence 2: What is that most like today?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 most | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 most | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 most | mark |
| 4 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 today | case |
| 6 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 most | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 most | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | today | most property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
A quiet library
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 library | det |
| 2 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 library | amod |
| 3 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Football supporters cheering their team
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 supporters | compound |
| 2 | supporters | supporter | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | cheering | cheer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 supporters | acl |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 team | nmod:poss |
| 5 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cheering | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cheer | gerund | Football supporters not said here | supporters's team | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus team=Experiencer |
Option 3
A church service
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 service | det |
| 2 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 service | compound |
| 3 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A school exam
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 exam | det |
| 2 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 exam | compound |
| 3 | exam | exam | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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