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Test 10 · ★★ · Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us

An empire is too big for one ruler. What did Rome do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: empire, Rome · What happens: be, do

This is test 10 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: An empire is too big for one ruler.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 empire	det
2	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 big	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 big	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 big	advmod
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 ruler	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 ruler	nummod
8	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 big	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 big	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a empire					for one ruler; big property	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.

Sentence 2: What did Rome do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Rome						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Elected two hundred emperors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elected	elect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 emperors	nummod
4	emperors	emperor	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Elected	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	elect	participle		hundred emperors					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emperor=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Split into an eastern and a western half

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Split	split	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	4 eastern	case
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 eastern	det
4	eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Split	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 half	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 half	det
7	western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 half	amod
8	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 eastern	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	imperative	you not said here					into a eastern and a western half result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into eastern=Result

Option 3

Gave up all its land and went back to seven hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Gave	compound:prt
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 land	det:predet
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 land	nmod:poss
5	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gave	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Gave	conj
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 hills	case
10	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 hills	nummod
11	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past		its land					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Source
2	go back	past						to seven hills result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to hill=Result

Option 4

Moved everyone to Rome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Moved	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Rome	case
4	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Moved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	past		everyone	Rome				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme to rome=Result

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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