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Test 3 · ★ · Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols

A ruler did terrible things young and good things old. How should a history book tell it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ruler, history book · What happens: do, tell · To what, where: terrible things, ruler · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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: A ruler did terrible things young and good things old.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ruler	det
2	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	obj
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 things	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 good	cc
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 young	conj
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 old	obl:unmarked
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	a ruler	terrible things					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

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: How should a history book tell it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 tell	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 book	det
4	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 book	compound
5	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	should	a history book		ruler				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It should keep both halves of his life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keep	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 halves	det
5	halves	half	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 life	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 life	nmod:poss
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 halves	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	should	It	both halves of his life					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme

Option 2

It should keep only the good half, so that children have a hero

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keep	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 half	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 half	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 half	amod
7	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	3 keep	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
9	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 have	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 so	fixed
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hero	det
14	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	should	It	the good half					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme
2	have	present	children	a hero					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hero=Patient

Option 3

It should keep only the bad half

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keep	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 half	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 half	det
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 half	amod
7	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	3 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	should	It	the bad half					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme

Option 4

It should leave him out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 leave	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 leave	aux
3	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 leave	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	3 leave	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave out	should	It	him = he					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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