Test 1 · ★★ · Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us

a mate says rome fell in one day in 476 and everyone woke up in the dark ages. right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, rome, everyone · What happens: say, fall, wake up · To what, where: 476, dark ages · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 16 «Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us» 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mate	det
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rome	rome	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	nsubj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 day	nummod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 476	case
10	476	476	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 fell	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 woke	cc
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 woke	nsubj
13	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fell	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 woke	compound:prt
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 ages	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ages	det
17	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ages	amod
18	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 woke	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
20	right	right	INTJ	_	3 says	discourse
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a mate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fall	past	rome	476	day	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in 476=Location
3	wake up	past	everyone		in the dark ages	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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

Yes, everything changed overnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 changed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 changed	nsubj
4	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	4 changed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past	everything					overnight property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, for most people life changed slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 changed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 changed	punct
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 people	case
4	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 changed	obl
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 changed	nsubj
7	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	7 changed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past	life					for most people; slowly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, and Rome vanished from the map

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 vanished	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 vanished	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 vanished	cc
4	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 vanished	nsubj
5	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 map	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 map	det
8	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 vanished	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past	Rome			the map			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from map=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

No, Rome never fell at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fell	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 fell	advmod
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fall	past	Rome			all			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at all=Location

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