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Test 3 · Ancient times and famous stories

Owen says Romans had vomitoriums for being sick at feasts. What was a vomitorium for?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Owen, Romans, vomitoriums · What happens: say, have, be · To what, where: vomitoriums, feasts · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 of lesson 21 «Ancient times and famous stories» 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: Owen says Romans had vomitoriums for being sick at feasts.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
5	vomitoriums	vomitorium	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 sick	case
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 sick	cop
8	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 had	xcomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 feasts	case
10	feasts	feast	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sick	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Owen						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	Romans	vomitoriums					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vomitorium=Patient
3	is	gerund	vomitoriums not said here			feasts		sick 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 was a vomitorium for?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 vomitorium	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 vomitorium	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 vomitorium	det
4	vomitorium	vomitorium	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	4 vomitorium	case
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 vomitorium	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						for a vomitorium	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Storing leftover food after feasts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Storing	store	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	leftover	leftover	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 food	compound
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Storing	obj
4	after	after	ADP	_	5 feasts	case
5	feasts	feast	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Storing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	gerund		leftover food			after feasts		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme

Option 2

Training gladiators before fights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Training	training	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gladiators	compound
2	gladiators	gladiator	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	before	before	ADP	_	4 fights	case
4	fights	fight	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gladiators	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Letting crowds pour out of a stadium

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Letting	let	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 crowds	amod
2	crowds	crowd	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pour	nsubj
3	pour	pour	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 stadium	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 stadium	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stadium	det
7	stadium	stadium	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pour	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	gerund							vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	pour out	infinitive	Letting crowds	a stadium					vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stadium=Patient

Option 4

Keeping lions under the arena

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Keeping	obj
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 arena	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 arena	det
5	arena	arena	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keeping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	gerund		lions		the arena			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lion=Theme under arena=Location

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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