--- title: If Rome had no roads, what would be hardest? — Rome: the empire, the legions and the… · tree and pragmatics description: If Rome had no roads, what would be hardest? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 14 «Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads» 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/14-rome-the-empire-the-legions-and-the-roads/t3/) [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: the empire, the legions and the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/14-rome-the-empire-the-legions-and-the-roads/) / t3 # Test 3 · ★ · Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads If Rome had no roads, what would be hardest? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Rome · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** roads This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 14 «Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads» 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/14-rome-the-empire-the-legions-and-the-roads/#t3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:14-rome-the-empire-the-legions-and-the-roads:t3:1 # text = If Rome had no roads, what would be hardest? 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 Rome Rome PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 5 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 10 obj _ _ 8 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 cop _ _ 10 hardest hard ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Rome | no roads | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient | | 2 | **is** | would | | | | | | hard *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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Moving armies and messages quickly ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:14-rome-the-empire-the-legions-and-the-roads:t3:o1:1 # text = Moving armies and messages quickly 1 Moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 armies army NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 messages message NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 5 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | gerund | | armies and messages | | | | quickly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent army=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} Building houses and temples in the city ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:14-rome-the-empire-the-legions-and-the-roads:t3:o2:1 # text = Building houses and temples in the city 1 Building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 temples temple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} Growing grapes for wine in the hills ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:14-rome-the-empire-the-legions-and-the-roads:t3:o3:1 # text = Growing grapes for wine in the hills 1 Growing grow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 grapes grape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 wine wine NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | gerund | | grapes | | the hills | | for wine | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent grape=Material for wine=Beneficiary | ### Option 4 {#o4} Speaking Latin to each other properly ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:14-rome-the-empire-the-legions-and-the-roads:t3:o4:1 # text = Speaking Latin to each other properly 1 Speaking speak VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 Latin Latin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 1 obl _ _ 5 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 fixed _ _ 6 properly properly ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | | Latin | | | | to each; properly *property* | tree rules | **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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