--- title: bruh, what was Cincinnatus up to when the messengers showed up? — Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cin… · tree and pragmatics description: bruh, what was Cincinnatus up to when the messengers showed up? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 350 «Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cincinnatus: a plowman leaves his field to save Rome and then gives back his power» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/350-pg18442-part10/t1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cin…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/350-pg18442-part10/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★ · Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cincinnatus: a plowman… bruh, what was Cincinnatus up to when the messengers showed up? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Cincinnatus · **What happens:** be, show up · **To what, where:** Cincinnatus This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 350 «Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cincinnatus: a plowman leaves his field to save Rome and then gives back his power» of the books 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/350-pg18442-part10/#t1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:350-pg18442-part10:t1:1 # text = bruh, what was Cincinnatus up to when the messengers showed up? 1 bruh bruh INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 Cincinnatus Cincinnatus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 6 up up ADP IN ExtPos=ADV 11 advmod _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 6 fixed _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 messengers messenger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | Cincinnatus | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **show up** | past | Cincinnatus | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Sleeping ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:350-pg18442-part10:t1:o1:1 # text = Sleeping 1 Sleeping sleeping NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Plowing his field ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:350-pg18442-part10:t1:o2:1 # text = Plowing his field 1 Plowing plow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **plow** | gerund | | his field | | | | | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent field=Initial\_Location | ### Option 3 {#o3} Hunting ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:350-pg18442-part10:t1:o3:1 # text = Hunting 1 Hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Building a stone wall ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:350-pg18442-part10:t1:o4:1 # text = Building a stone wall 1 Building build VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | gerund | | a stone wall | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wall=Product | **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. 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