Test 9 · Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus

Why can't you just say «it's in the chronicle, so it's true»?

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

This is test 9 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 say	advmod
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 say	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 say	advmod
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 chronicle	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 chronicle	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 chronicle	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 chronicle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 chronicle	det
12	chronicle	chronicle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 true	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 true	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 true	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 true	cop
17	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 chronicle	parataxis
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 true	punct
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	can	you			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	it	the chronicle		tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	chronicle		true 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

Chronicles mix facts with legends and must be checked against other sources

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chronicles	chronicle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mix	nsubj
2	mix	mix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mix	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 legends	case
5	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mix	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 checked	cc
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 checked	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 checked	aux:pass
9	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 mix	conj
10	against	against	ADP	_	12 sources	case
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sources	amod
12	sources	source	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 checked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	present	Chronicles	facts				with legends	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent fact=Patient with legend=Co-Patient
2	check	must · passive	Chronicles not said here			other sources			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: against source=Location

Option 2

Chronicles are always invented

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chronicles	chronicle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 invented	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 invented	aux:pass
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 invented	advmod
4	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	present · passive		Chronicles				always property	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

Option 3

Nobody can read old chronicles at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 read	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 read	aux
3	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chronicles	amod
5	chronicles	chronicle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 read	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 read	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	can	Nobody	old chronicles		all			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent chronicle=Theme at all=Value

Option 4

Chronicles were written yesterday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chronicles	chronicle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 written	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 written	aux:pass
3	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 written	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past · passive		Chronicles			yesterday		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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