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title: Fans scream for the Greens at the Circus Maximus. What is that most… — Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fans scream for the Greens at the Circus Maximus. What is that most like today? Test 7 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 rig
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# Test 7 · Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity

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Fans scream for the Greens at the Circus Maximus. What is that most like today?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Fans · **What happens:** scream, be · **To what, where:** Circus Maximus

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This is test 7 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Fans scream for the Greens at the Circus Maximus.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity:t7:1
# text = Fans scream for the Greens at the Circus Maximus.
1	Fans	fan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	scream	scream	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Greens	Green	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Circus	Circus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Maximus	Maximus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scream** *speech: express* | present | Fans |  |  | the Circus Maximus |  | for the Greens | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at maximus=Location |

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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 is that most like today?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity:t7:2
# text = What is that most like today?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  | today | most *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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A quiet library

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity:t7:o1:1
# text = A quiet library
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	library	library	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Football supporters cheering their team

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity:t7:o2:1
# text = Football supporters cheering their team
1	Football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	supporters	supporter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	cheering	cheer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cheer** | gerund | Football supporters *not said here* | supporters's team |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus team=Experiencer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A church service

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity:t7:o3:1
# text = A church service
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A school exam

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity:t7:o4:1
# text = A school exam
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	exam	exam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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