Exam question 2 · Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus
Identify the modern states which regard Kyivan Rus as constituting part of their history.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, modern states · What happens: identify, regard, constitute · To what, where: modern states, Kyivan, part
This is exam question 2 of lesson 41 «Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus» of the history course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 states | det |
| 3 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 states | amod |
| 4 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Identify | obj |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 regard | nsubj |
| 6 | regard | regard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 states | acl:relcl |
| 7 | Kyivan | Kyivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 regard | obj |
| 8 | Rus | Rus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Kyivan | flat |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 constituting | mark |
| 10 | constituting | constitute | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 regard | advcl |
| 11 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 constituting | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 history | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 history | nmod:poss |
| 14 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 part | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the modern states | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent state=Theme | ||||
| 2 | regard | present | the modern states | Kyivan | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kyivan=Theme | ||||
| 3 | constitute | gerund | the modern states not said here | part of states's history | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme part=Pivot |
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 Russian Federation alone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Federation | det |
| 2 | Russian | Russian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Federation | amod |
| 3 | Federation | Federation | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 Federation | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The kingdoms of Sweden and Norway
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 kingdoms | det |
| 2 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Sweden | case |
| 4 | Sweden | Sweden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 kingdoms | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Norway | cc |
| 6 | Norway | Norway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Sweden | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Poland | punct |
| 3 | Poland | Poland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ukraine | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Lithuania | cc |
| 5 | Lithuania | Lithuania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ukraine | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Ukraine, Belarus and Russia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Belarus | punct |
| 3 | Belarus | Belarus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ukraine | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Russia | cc |
| 5 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ukraine | conj |
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. Elamur Cosmic License.
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