Test 8 · ★★ · Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us

Why is it fair to say Rome did not really end in 476?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rome · What happens: be, say, not end · To what, where: 476 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	4 fair	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fair	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fair	expl
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fair	csubj
7	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 end	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 end	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 end	advmod
10	really	really	ADV	_	11 end	advmod
11	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	ccomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 476	case
13	476	476	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 end	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fair	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present			fair property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not end	past · do-support	Rome	476		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

The West grew stronger after 476

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 West	det
2	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grew	xcomp
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 476	case
6	476	476	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the West				after 476	strong property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The eastern half lived on for another thousand years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 half	det
2	eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 half	amod
3	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 lived	compound:prt
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 thousand	det
8	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live on	past	the eastern half				year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Rome still had an emperor living in the Colosseum in 2000

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 emperor	det
5	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 emperor	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 Colosseum	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Colosseum	det
9	Colosseum	Colosseum	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 living	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 2000	case
11	2000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 living	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Rome	a emperor			still		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emperor=Patient
2	live	gerund	a emperor not said here			the Colosseum		in 2000	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in colosseum=Location

Option 4

Nobody noticed anything at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 noticed	nsubj
2	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 noticed	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 anything	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	past	Nobody	anything		all			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

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