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Test 7 · Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus

Danylo says Sviatoslav was a Cossack 'cause of his haircut. What's wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Danylo, Sviatoslav · What happens: say, be · To what, where: cause · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 of lesson 41 «Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus» 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

Sentence 1: Danylo says Sviatoslav was a Cossack 'cause of his haircut.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Danylo	Danylo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Sviatoslav	Sviatoslav	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cause	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cause	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cause	det
6	Cossack	cossack	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cause	nmod:poss
7	'	's	PART	_	6 Cossack	case
8	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 haircut	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 haircut	nmod:poss
11	haircut	haircut	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cause	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Danylo						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	Sviatoslav	Cossack's cause				of Sviatoslav's haircut	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.

Sentence 2: What's wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Cossacks lived before Kyiv was founded

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cossacks	cossack	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 founded	mark
4	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 founded	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 founded	aux:pass
6	founded	found	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lived	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	Cossacks						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	found	past · passive		Kyiv					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

Nothing, Sviatoslav founded the Sich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 founded	obj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	Sviatoslav	Sviatoslav	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 founded	nsubj
4	founded	found	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sich	det
6	Sich	Sich	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 founded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	found	past	Sviatoslav	Nothing					tree rules

Option 3

Sviatoslav had long hair, so it is all wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sviatoslav	Sviatoslav	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hair	amod
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wrong	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 wrong	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wrong	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 wrong	cop
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 wrong	advmod
10	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Sviatoslav	long hair					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
2	is	present	hair					all, wrong property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The haircut detail is real, but the Cossacks appeared about five centuries later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 detail	det
2	haircut	haircut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 detail	compound
3	detail	detail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 real	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 real	cop
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 appeared	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 appeared	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Cossacks	det
9	Cossacks	Cossack	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 appeared	nsubj
10	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 real	parataxis
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 five	advmod
12	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 centuries	nummod
13	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 appeared	obj
14	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 appeared	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the haircut detail					real property	tree rules
2	appear	past	the Cossacks				century	late property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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