Test 9 · Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity

dormice for dinner?? who ate that lol

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: dormice · What happens: eat

This is test 9 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	dormice	dormouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ate	nsubj
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 dinner	case
3	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dormice	nmod
4	??	??	PUNCT	_	6 ate	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 ate	nsubj
6	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 ate	obj
8	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 ate	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	dormice for dinner						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient

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

Nobody, it is a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 joke	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nobody	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 joke	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 joke	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 joke	det
6	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nobody	a joke					tree rules

Option 2

Gladiators only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gladiators	gladiator	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	1 Gladiators	advmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Rich Romans at their feasts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Romans	amod
2	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 feasts	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feasts	nmod:poss
5	feasts	feast	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Romans	nmod

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

Option 4

Every poor Roman each day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 Roman	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Roman	amod
3	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Roman	obl:unmarked

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

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