Test 11 · Lithuanian and Polish times, the first Cossacks
Danylo: «Cossacks alone saved Europe at Khotyn». Teacher: «the Polish army won». Fair answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Danylo, Teacher · What happens: save, win · To what, where: Europe, Khotyn
This is test 11 of lesson 43 «Lithuanian and Polish times, the first Cossacks» 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: «Cossacks alone saved Europe at Khotyn».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danylo | Danylo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 saved | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 saved | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 Cossacks | punct |
| 4 | Cossacks | cossack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saved | nsubj |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 Cossacks | advmod |
| 6 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 saved | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Khotyn | case |
| 9 | Khotyn | Khotyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 saved | obl |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 Khotyn | punct |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saved | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save in a quote | past | Danylo | Europe | Khotyn | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent europe=Theme at khotyn=Asset |
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: Teacher: «the Polish army won».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 won | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Teacher | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 won | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 army | det |
| 5 | Polish | polish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 army | amod |
| 6 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 won | nsubj |
| 7 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 won | punct |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 won | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win in a quote | past | Teacher | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: Fair answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 answer | amod |
| 2 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 answer | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The Ottomans won easily
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Ottomans | det |
| 2 | Ottomans | Ottoman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 won | nsubj |
| 3 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 3 won | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past | the Ottomans | easily property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Only the Poles fought
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 Poles | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Poles | det |
| 3 | Poles | pole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fought | nsubj |
| 4 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | the Poles | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Only the Cossacks fought
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 Cossacks | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Cossacks | det |
| 3 | Cossacks | Cossack | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 fought | nsubj |
| 4 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | the Cossacks | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
They fought together, and Sahaidachny's Cossacks were crucial
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fought | nsubj |
| 2 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 fought | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 crucial | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 crucial | cc |
| 6 | Sahaidachny | Sahaidachny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Cossacks | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Sahaidachny | case |
| 8 | Cossacks | Cossack | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 crucial | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 crucial | cop |
| 10 | crucial | crucial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fought | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | They | together property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Sahaidachny's Cossacks | crucial 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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