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title: bruv, what did Carthage want Regulus to tell Rome? — Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cin… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruv, what did Carthage want Regulus to tell Rome? Test 10 · ★ 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 the question a
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# Test 10 · ★ · Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cincinnatus: a plowman…

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bruv, what did Carthage want Regulus to tell Rome?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Carthage, Regulus · **What happens:** want, tell · **To what, where:** Regulus, Rome · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:350-pg18442-part10:t10:1
# text = bruv, what did Carthage want Regulus to tell Rome?
1	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Carthage	Carthage	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	Regulus	Regulus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past · do-support | Carthage | Regulus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Regulus *not said here* |  | Rome |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rome=Recipient |

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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}

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That Carthage had won the war

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:350-pg18442-part10:t10:o1:1
# text = That Carthage had won the war
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	Carthage	Carthage	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past · perfect | that Carthage | the war |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Eventuality |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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That they had gained nothing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:350-pg18442-part10:t10:o2:1
# text = That they had gained nothing
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	gained	gain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gain** | past · perfect · passive |  | That |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary nothing=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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That Rome had lost

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:350-pg18442-part10:t10:o3:1
# text = That Rome had lost
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past · perfect · passive |  | that Rome |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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That the war was lost for them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:350-pg18442-part10:t10:o4:1
# text = That the war was lost for them
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past · passive |  | that war |  |  |  | for them *= they* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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**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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