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title: dormice for dinner?? who ate that lol — Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin an… · tree and pragmatics
description: dormice for dinner?? who ate that lol Test 9 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 right.
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# Test 9 · Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity

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dormice for dinner?? who ate that lol

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** dormice · **What happens:** eat

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity:t9:1
# text = dormice for dinner?? who ate that lol
1	dormice	dormouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	??	??	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	obj	_	_
8	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | dormice for dinner |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |

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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 {#o1}

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Nobody, it is a joke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity:t9:o1:1
# text = Nobody, it is a joke
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Nobody | a joke |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Gladiators only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity:t9:o2:1
# text = Gladiators only
1	Gladiators	gladiator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Rich Romans at their feasts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity:t9:o3:1
# text = Rich Romans at their feasts
1	Rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Romans	Roman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	feasts	feast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Every poor Roman each day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity:t9:o4:1
# text = Every poor Roman each day
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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

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