Test 5 · ★★ · The Second World War

Why is it wrong to say Ukraine was not important in the Second World War?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: it, Ukraine · What happens: be, say, not be · To what, where: Second World War · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 34 «The Second World War» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 wrong	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wrong	nsubj
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wrong	csubj
7	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 important	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 important	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 important	advmod
10	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 say	ccomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 War	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 War	det
13	Second	Second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 War	amod
14	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 War	compound
15	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 important	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	it		wrong property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is	past	Ukraine	the Second World War	important property	tree rules

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It was one of the worst hit places, with millions of Ukrainians killed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 one	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 one	cop
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 places	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 places	det
6	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 places	amod
7	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 places	amod
8	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 millions	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 millions	case
11	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 places	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Ukrainians	case
13	Ukrainians	Ukrainian	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 millions	nmod
14	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 places	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	one		tree rules
2	hit	participle				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past			of the worst hit places and millions of Ukrainians	tree rules

Option 2

It is right, nothing much happened there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 nothing	punct
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 right	conj
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 happened	advmod
7	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nothing	acl
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 happened	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					right property	tree rules
2	happen	past				there			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It stayed neutral like Switzerland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	neutral	neutral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stayed	xcomp
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 Switzerland	case
5	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	It					like Switzerland; neutral property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Ukraine did not exist then, so no Ukrainians took part in the war

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 exist	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 exist	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 exist	advmod
4	exist	exist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 exist	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 took	advmod
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 Ukrainians	det
9	Ukrainians	Ukrainian	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 exist	parataxis
11	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 war	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 war	det
14	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not exist	past · do-support	Ukraine				then		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	past	no Ukrainians	part		the war			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in war=Location

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