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Test 8 · Kings, queens and emperors

Felix's poster says "Julius Caesar, first emperor of Rome". What should it say?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: poster, Felix, it · What happens: say, post · To what, where: Julius · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 of lesson 19 «Kings, queens and emperors» of the myths 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: Felix's poster says "Julius Caesar, first emperor of Rome".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Felix	Felix	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 poster	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Felix	case
3	poster	poster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Julius	punct
6	Julius	Julius	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 says	obj
7	Caesar	Caesar	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Julius	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 emperor	punct
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 emperor	advmod
10	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Julius	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Rome	case
12	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 emperor	nmod
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Julius	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Felix's poster	Julius					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent julius=Topic
2	post		Felix						nom poster «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 should it say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	should	it						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Julius Caesar, first king of Rome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Julius	Julius	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Caesar	Caesar	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Julius	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 king	punct
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 king	advmod
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Julius	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Rome	case
7	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 king	nmod

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

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

Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome; Augustus was the first emperor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Julius	Julius	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Caesar	Caesar	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Julius	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dictator	punct
4	dictator	dictator	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Julius	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Rome	case
6	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dictator	nmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 emperor	punct
8	Augustus	Augustus	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 emperor	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 emperor	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 emperor	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 emperor	amod
12	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Julius	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Augustus	the first emperor					tree rules

Option 3

Julius Caesar, first emperor of Egypt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Julius	Julius	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Caesar	Caesar	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Julius	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 emperor	punct
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 emperor	advmod
5	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Julius	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Egypt	case
7	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 emperor	nmod

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

Option 4

It is right, so it should not change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 change	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	9 change	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 change	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 change	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 change	advmod
9	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 right	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					right property	tree rules
2	not change	should	it						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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