--- title: Identify the person who in 27 BC became the first emperor of Rome. — Rome: from a town on seven hills to a… · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the person who in 27 BC became the first emperor of Rome. Exam question 1 of lesson 13 «Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/13-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic/e1/) [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/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/) / [Rome: from a town on seven hills to a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/13-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic Identify the person who in 27 BC became the first emperor of Rome. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, person · **What happens:** identify, become · **To what, where:** person, first emperor, 27 This is exam question 1 of lesson 13 «Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic» of the history course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/history/13-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:13-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic:e1:1 # text = Identify the person who in 27 BC became the first emperor of Rome. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 27 27 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 obl _ _ 7 BC BC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 amod _ _ 11 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 xcomp _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Rome Rome PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the person | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent person=Theme | | 2 | **become** | past | the person | the first emperor of Rome | | | | in 27 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 27=Result | 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} Hannibal ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:13-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic:e1:o1:1 # text = Hannibal 1 Hannibal Hannibal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Augustus ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:13-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic:e1:o2:1 # text = Augustus 1 Augustus augustus NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Romulus ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:13-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic:e1:o3:1 # text = Romulus 1 Romulus Romulus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Julius Caesar ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:13-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic:e1:o4:1 # text = Julius Caesar 1 Julius Julius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Caesar Caesar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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