--- title: Why is it fair to say Rome did not really end in 476? — Rome: the fall of the West and what Ro… · tree and pragmatics description: Why is it fair to say Rome did not really end in 476? Test 8 · ★★ 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 wrong. --- [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/t8/) [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/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★★ · Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us Why is it fair to say Rome did not really end in 476? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Rome · **What happens:** be, say, not end · **To what, where:** 476 · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 8 · ★★ 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us:t8:1 # text = Why is it fair to say Rome did not really end in 476? 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 expl _ _ 4 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 csubj _ _ 7 Rome Rome PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 8 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 10 really really ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 end end VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 476 476 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | fair *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **end** | past · do-support | Rome | | | 476 | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} The West grew stronger after 476 ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us:t8:o1:1 # text = The West grew stronger after 476 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 West West PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 xcomp _ _ 5 after after ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 476 476 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | the West | | | | after 476 | strong *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} The eastern half lived on for another thousand years ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us:t8:o2:1 # text = The eastern half lived on for another thousand years 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 eastern eastern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 4 nsubj _ _ 4 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 8 det _ _ 8 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live on** | past | the eastern half | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} Rome still had an emperor living in the Colosseum in 2000 ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us:t8:o3:1 # text = Rome still had an emperor living in the Colosseum in 2000 1 Rome Rome PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 still still ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Colosseum Colosseum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 2000 2000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Rome | a emperor | | | still | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emperor=Patient | | 2 | **live** | gerund | a emperor *not said here* | | | the Colosseum | | in 2000 | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in colosseum=Location | ### Option 4 {#o4} Nobody noticed anything at all ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us:t8:o4:1 # text = Nobody noticed anything at all 1 Nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 2 nsubj _ _ 2 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 2 obj _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 3 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **notice** | past | Nobody | anything | | all | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | **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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