--- title: If monks had not copied books, what might we have lost? — Rome: the fall of the West and what Ro… · tree and pragmatics description: If monks had not copied books, what might we have lost? Test 4 · ★★ of lesson 16 «Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/t4/) [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 fall of the West and what Ro…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★★ · Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us If monks had not copied books, what might we have lost? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** we · **What happens:** not copy, lose · **To what, where:** monks This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 16 «Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us» 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/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us:t4:1 # text = If monks had not copied books, what might we have lost? 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 monks monk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 copied copy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 advcl _ _ 6 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 12 obj _ _ 9 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 10 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 aux _ _ 12 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **copy** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive | | monks | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **lose** | might · perfect | we | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | 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} All the Viking runes ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us:t4:o1:1 # text = All the Viking runes 1 All all DET PDT PronType=Tot 4 det:predet _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Viking viking NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 runes rune NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The Egyptian pyramids ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us:t4:o2:1 # text = The Egyptian pyramids 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Egyptian Egyptian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 pyramids pyramid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} The Chinese printing blocks ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us:t4:o3:1 # text = The Chinese printing blocks 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 printing printing NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 blocks block NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Many Roman and Greek books ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us:t4:o4:1 # text = Many Roman and Greek books 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 2 Roman roman ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 Greek Greek ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 5 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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