Exam question 1 · Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us

Identify the emperor who in 313 granted Christians the liberty of worship and founded Constantinople.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, emperor · What happens: identify, grant, found · To what, where: emperor, liberty, Christians, 313, Constantinople

This is exam question 1 of lesson 16 «Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us» of the history course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 emperor	det
3	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 granted	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 313	case
6	313	313	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 granted	obl
7	granted	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 emperor	acl:relcl
8	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 granted	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 liberty	det
10	liberty	liberty	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 granted	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 worship	case
12	worship	worship	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 liberty	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 founded	cc
14	founded	found	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 granted	conj
15	Constantinople	Constantinople	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 founded	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the emperor			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent emperor=Theme
2	grant	past	the emperor	the liberty of worship	Christians	313	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent christian=Goal liberty=Theme
3	found	past	the emperor not said here	Constantinople			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent constantinople=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 · ← Mova's choice

Romulus Augustulus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Romulus	Romulus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Augustulus	Augustulus	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Romulus	flat

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Constantine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Constantine	Constantine	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Augustus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Augustus	augustus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Justinian

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Justinian	Justinian	PROPN	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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