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Test 1 · ★ · Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols

teacher writes «Russia was baptised in 988», Danylo writes «Ukraine was». What would a careful historian write?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, Danylo, Ukraine, careful historian · What happens: write, baptise, be · To what, where: Russia, 988 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 42 «Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols» 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: teacher writes «Russia was baptised in 988», Danylo writes «Ukraine was».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 writes	nsubj
2	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 baptised	punct
4	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 baptised	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 baptised	aux:pass
6	baptised	baptise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 writes	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 988	case
8	988	988	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 baptised	obl
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 baptised	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 writes	punct
11	Danylo	Danylo	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 writes	nsubj
12	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 writes	parataxis
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 was	punct
14	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 was	nsubj
15	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 writes	ccomp
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 was	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 writes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	teacher						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	baptise in a quote	past · passive		Russia		988			tree rules
3	write	present	Danylo						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	be in a quote	past	Ukraine						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 would a careful historian write?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 write	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 write	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 historian	det
4	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 historian	amod
5	historian	historian	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 write	nsubj
6	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 write	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	would	a careful historian						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only Ukraine, Russia did not exist yet so nothing happened

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 Ukraine	advmod
2	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 exist	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ukraine	punct
4	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 exist	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 exist	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 exist	advmod
7	exist	exist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	yet	yet	ADV	_	7 exist	advmod
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 happened	advmod
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 happened	nsubj
11	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 exist	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not exist	past · do-support	Ukraine				yet		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	happen	past	nothing						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Rus was baptised in Kyiv, the shared ancestor of both

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rus	Rus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 baptised	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 baptised	aux:pass
3	baptised	baptise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Kyiv	case
5	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 baptised	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ancestor	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ancestor	det
8	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 ancestor	amod
9	ancestor	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Kyiv	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 both	case
11	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	9 ancestor	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	baptise	past · passive		Rus		Kyiv			tree rules
2	share	participle							tree rules

Option 3

Only Russia, Kyiv was not involved

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 Russia	advmod
2	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 involved	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Russia	punct
4	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Russia	flat
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 involved	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 involved	advmod
7	involved	involved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Russia					involved property	tree rules

Option 4

Neither, it was in 1240

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	6 1240	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 1240	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 1240	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 1240	case
6	1240	1240	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it			1240		neither property	tree rules

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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