Test 8 · Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity

Why was a fire in the insulae so dangerous?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: fire

This is test 8 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 fire	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fire	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fire	det
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dangerous	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 insulae	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 insulae	det
7	insulae	insulae	X	Foreign=Yes	9 dangerous	nsubj
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 dangerous	advmod
9	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 dangerous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a fire					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

The flats were made of ice and melted in the heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flats	det
2	flats	flat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 ice	case
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 melted	cc
8	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 made	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 heat	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 heat	det
11	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 melted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		the flats				of ice	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	melt	participle				the heat			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Firefighters were not allowed in by law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Firefighters	firefighter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 allowed	advmod
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	4 allowed	compound:prt
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 law	case
7	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 allowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow in	past · passive	law	Firefighters					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Many people lived crowded together in tall blocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 crowded	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crowded	aux:pass
4	crowded	crowd	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	together	together	ADV	_	4 crowded	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 blocks	case
7	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 blocks	amod
8	blocks	block	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 crowded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crowd together	past · passive		Many people		tall blocks		together property	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in block=Destination

Option 4

Nobody lived there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 lived	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	Nobody			there			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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