Test 6 · ★★ · Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us

Why did the Huns cause trouble even where they did not go?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Huns · What happens: cause, not go · To what, where: trouble

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 cause	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Huns	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Huns	det
4	Huns	Hun	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 cause	nsubj
5	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 go	advcl
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cause	obj
7	even	even	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 go	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 go	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 go	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 go	advmod
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present	the Huns	trouble					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition trouble=Patient
2	not go	past · do-support	Huns = hun						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

They pushed other peoples into Roman lands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pushed	nsubj
2	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 peoples	amod
4	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pushed	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 lands	case
6	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lands	amod
7	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pushed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	past	They	other peoples		Roman lands			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent people=Theme into land=Destination

Option 2

They stopped all trade with China

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 trade	nsubj
4	trade	trade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	ccomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 China	case
6	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stopped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	They					with China	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	trade	present	all						vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They built tall walls everywhere they could find stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 built	nsubj
2	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 walls	amod
4	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 built	obj
5	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 built	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 find	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 find	aux
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 built	parataxis
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	They	tall walls				everywhere property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wall=Product
2	find	could	walls = wall	stone					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic

Option 4

They sailed up every river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sailed	nsubj
2	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 sailed	compound:prt
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sailed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail up	past	They	every river					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme river=Trajectory

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