Test 4 · ★★ · Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us

If monks had not copied books, what might we have lost?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: we · What happens: not copy, lose · To what, where: monks

This is test 4 · ★★ 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 copied	mark
2	monks	monk	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 copied	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 copied	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 copied	advmod
5	copied	copy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 lost	advcl
6	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 copied	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 copied	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 lost	obj
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 lost	aux
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 lost	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 lost	aux
12	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 lost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not copy a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		monks					tree rules
2	lose	might · perfect	we						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

All the Viking runes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 runes	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 runes	det
3	Viking	viking	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 runes	compound
4	runes	rune	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

The Egyptian pyramids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pyramids	det
2	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pyramids	amod
3	pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

The Chinese printing blocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 blocks	det
2	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 blocks	amod
3	printing	printing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blocks	compound
4	blocks	block	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Many Roman and Greek books

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 books	amod
2	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 books	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Greek	cc
4	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Roman	conj
5	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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