Test 10 · ★ · Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols
Danylo says Mongols ruled Ukraine 300 years. What's the fix?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Danylo, Mongols, fix · What happens: say, rule, be · To what, where: Ukraine · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★ 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: Danylo says Mongols ruled Ukraine 300 years.
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 | Mongols | Mongol | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 ruled | nsubj |
| 4 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 5 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ruled | obj |
| 6 | 300 | 300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ruled | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | . | . | 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 clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | rule | past | Mongols | Ukraine | year | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent ukraine=Result |
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 the fix?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fix | det |
| 4 | fix | fix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the fix | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
The Mongols ruled for 3 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Mongols | det |
| 2 | Mongols | Mongol | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 ruled | nsubj |
| 3 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 years | case |
| 5 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ruled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past | the Mongols | year | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
He's right for every region
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 region | case |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 region | det |
| 6 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 right | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | for every region; right property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
In most Ukrainian lands it was about a century; 300 fits Moscow's lands better
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 lands | case |
| 2 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 lands | amod |
| 3 | Ukrainian | ukrainian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lands | amod |
| 4 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 century | obl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 century | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 century | cop |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 century | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 century | det |
| 9 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 fits | punct |
| 11 | 300 | 300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 fits | nsubj |
| 12 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 century | acl:relcl |
| 13 | Moscow | Moscow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 lands | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Moscow | case |
| 15 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fits | obj |
| 16 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 fits | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a century | most Ukrainian lands | about property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | fit | present | 300 | Moscow's lands | well property | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient |
Option 4
The Mongols never ruled anywhere in Rus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Mongols | det |
| 2 | Mongols | Mongol | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 ruled | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 ruled | advmod |
| 4 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 ruled | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Rus | case |
| 7 | Rus | Rus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ruled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not rule | past | the Mongols | Rus | anywhere property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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