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Test 9 · ★ · Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols

The teacher says the Mongols wiped Kyiv off the map in 1240. What's more exact?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, Mongols · What happens: say, wipe, be · To what, where: Kyiv, 1240 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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: The teacher says the Mongols wiped Kyiv off the map in 1240.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Mongols	det
5	Mongols	Mongol	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 wiped	nsubj
6	wiped	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 wiped	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	10 map	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 map	det
10	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wiped	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 1240	case
12	1240	1240	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 wiped	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the teacher						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wipe	past	the Mongols	Kyiv		1240		off the map	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent kyiv=Theme off map=Trajectory

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 more exact?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 exact	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 exact	cop
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 exact	advmod
4	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 exact	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						exact property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Kyiv disappeared from the map and was never rebuilt by anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 disappeared	nsubj
2	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 map	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 map	det
5	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 disappeared	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rebuilt	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 rebuilt	aux:pass
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 rebuilt	advmod
9	rebuilt	rebuild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 disappeared	conj
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 anyone	case
11	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 rebuilt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	past	Kyiv			the map			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from map=Initial_Location
2	not rebuild	past · passive	anyone						vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Kyiv was badly damaged and much reduced, but it survived

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 damaged	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 damaged	aux:pass
3	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 damaged	advmod
4	damaged	damage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 reduced	cc
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 reduced	advmod
7	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 damaged	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 survived	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 survived	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 survived	nsubj
11	survived	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 damaged	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	damage	past · passive		Kyiv				badly property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	reduce	participle							vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer
3	survive	past	it						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The Mongols never reached Kyiv

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 reached	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 reached	advmod
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not reach	past	the Mongols	Kyiv					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent kyiv=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The Mongols made Kyiv their capital

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 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 capital	nmod:poss
6	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the Mongols	Kyiv					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kyiv=Product

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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