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title: Why does Pompeii tell us so much about Roman life? — Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why does Pompeii tell us so much about Roman life? Test 3 of lesson 15 «Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity» 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 3 · Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity

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Why does Pompeii tell us so much about Roman life?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Pompeii · **What happens:** tell · **To what, where:** us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 of lesson 15 «Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity» 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/15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity:t3:1
# text = Why does Pompeii tell us so much about Roman life?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Pompeii	Pompeii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | Pompeii |  | us |  |  | about Roman life | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent we=Recipient about life=Topic |

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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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It was never part of Rome

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity:t3:o1:1
# text = It was never part of Rome
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | past | It | part |  |  |  | of Rome | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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People still live in the old houses today

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity:t3:o2:1
# text = People still live in the old houses today
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | People |  |  | the old houses | still; today |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Ash buried it quickly, keeping streets, shops and graffiti

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity:t3:o3:1
# text = Ash buried it quickly, keeping streets, shops and graffiti
1	Ash	ash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	graffiti	graffiti	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bury** | past | Ash | it |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | gerund | Ash *not said here* | streets and shops and graffiti |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent street=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Romans wrote a long guidebook to the town for visitors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity:t3:o4:1
# text = The Romans wrote a long guidebook to the town for visitors
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Romans	Roman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	guidebook	guidebook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | the Romans | a long guidebook |  |  |  | to the town; for visitors | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent guidebook=Result for visitor=Beneficiary |

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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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