Test 7 · ★ · Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols
Danylo goes «Kyiv fell only cos of enemies». What's missing?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Danylo, Kyiv · What happens: go, fall, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ 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 goes «Kyiv fell only cos of enemies».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danylo | Danylo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 goes | nsubj |
| 2 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
| 4 | Kyiv | Kyiv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 goes | ccomp |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 enemies | advmod |
| 7 | cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 9 enemies | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 enemies | case |
| 9 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fell | obl |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Danylo | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fall in a quote | past | Kyiv | cos enemies | vn occur-48.3 «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's missing?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 missing | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 missing | cop |
| 3 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 missing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | missing property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
A great flood in 1169
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 flood | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flood | amod |
| 3 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1169 | case |
| 5 | 1169 | 1169 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 flood | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
An earthquake that split the city
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 earthquake | det |
| 2 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 split | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 split | nsubj |
| 4 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 split | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | split | past | a earthquake | the city | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient |
Option 3
Nothing, only enemies mattered
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 mattered | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 enemies | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 enemies | advmod |
| 4 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Nothing | conj |
| 5 | mattered | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matter | past | Nothing | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Quarrels among its own princes, who even sacked Kyiv in 1169
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quarrels | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sacked | nsubj |
| 2 | among | among | ADP | _ | 5 princes | case |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 princes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 princes | amod |
| 5 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Quarrels | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sacked | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 sacked | nsubj |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 sacked | advmod |
| 9 | sacked | sack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Kyiv | Kyiv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sacked | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 1169 | case |
| 12 | 1169 | 1169 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 sacked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sack | past | Quarrels among its own princes | Kyiv | 1169 | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kyiv=Theme |
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