Test 7 · Space: from Sputnik to the Moon

your mate says space race = russia only. what about ukraine?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate · What happens: say · To what, where: space race · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 of lesson 35 «Space: from Sputnik to the Moon» 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	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 race	compound
5	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	obj
6	=	=	SYM	_	7 russia	punct
7	russia	russia	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 race	conj
8	only	only	ADV	_	7 russia	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 says	obl
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 ukraine	case
12	ukraine	ukraine	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 what	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	your mate	space race and russia					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent race=Topic

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

Ukraine had nothing to do with space

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 had	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 nothing	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 space	case
7	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Ukraine	nothing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	do	to-infinitive	Ukraine not said here	nothing not said here				with space	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Gagarin was the president of Ukraine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gagarin	Gagarin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 president	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 president	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 president	det
4	president	president	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Ukraine	case
6	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 president	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Gagarin	the president				of Ukraine	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The chief rocket designer Korolev was born in Ukraine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 designer	det
2	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 designer	amod
3	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 designer	compound
4	designer	designer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 born	nsubj:pass
5	Korolev	Korolev	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 designer	appos
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 born	aux:pass
7	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Ukraine	case
9	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 born	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past · passive		the chief rocket designer		Ukraine			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Ukraine built and launched the Apollo 11 rocket from Kyiv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 built	nsubj
2	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 launched	cc
4	launched	launch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 built	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rocket	det
6	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 rocket	compound
7	11	11	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 Apollo	flat
8	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 launched	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 Kyiv	case
10	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 launched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	Ukraine						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	launch	past	Ukraine not said here	the Apollo rocket		Kyiv			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent rocket=Theme from kyiv=Initial_Location

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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