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title: Senators killed Caesar in 44 BC. What were they afraid of? — Rome: from a town on seven hills to a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Senators killed Caesar in 44 BC. What were they afraid of? Test 8 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.
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# Test 8 · Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic

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Senators killed Caesar in 44 BC. What were they afraid of?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Senators · **What happens:** kill, be · **To what, where:** Caesar, 44

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This is test 8 of lesson 13 «Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic» of the history 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/history/13-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Senators killed Caesar in 44 BC.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:13-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic:t8:1
# text = Senators killed Caesar in 44 BC.
1	Senators	senator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Caesar	Caesar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	44	44	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
6	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past | Senators | Caesar |  | 44  BC |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caesar=Theme |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What were they afraid of?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:13-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic:t8:2
# text = What were they afraid of?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Senators *= senator* |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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That he would free all slaves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:13-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic:t8:o1:1
# text = That he would free all slaves
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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That he would lose a war

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:13-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic:t8:o2:1
# text = That he would lose a war
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|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 | **lose** | would | That | a war |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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That he would leave Rome

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:13-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic:t8:o3:1
# text = That he would leave Rome
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | would | That | Rome |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rome=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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That he wanted to be king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:13-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic:t8:o4:1
# text = That he wanted to be king
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | That |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is a** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | That *not said here* | king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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