Test 4 · Lithuanian and Polish times, the first Cossacks
Danylo says Kyiv-Mohyla taught all Russia to read. What's fair?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Danylo, Kyiv · What happens: say, teach, read, be · To what, where: Russia · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 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 says Kyiv-Mohyla taught all Russia to read.
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 | Kyiv | Kyiv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 taught | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mohyla | punct |
| 5 | Mohyla | Mohyla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Kyiv | conj |
| 6 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 Russia | det |
| 8 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 taught | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 read | mark |
| 10 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 taught | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | 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 | teach speech: other | past | Kyiv and Mohyla | all Russia | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent russia=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | read | to-infinitive | Kyiv and Mohyla not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 fair?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 fair | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fair | cop |
| 3 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fair | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fair property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It taught only Latin to Swedes
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 | 2 taught | nsubj |
| 2 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 Latin | advmod |
| 4 | Latin | Latin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 taught | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Swedes | case |
| 6 | Swedes | swede | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Latin | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | past | It | latin property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
It had no influence at all
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 | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 influence | det |
| 4 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 had | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | It | no influence | all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent influence=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Too much, but its influence on Russian schools and the church was huge
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 huge | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 huge | cc |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 influence | nmod:poss |
| 6 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 huge | nsubj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 schools | case |
| 8 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 schools | amod |
| 9 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 influence | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 church | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 church | det |
| 12 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 schools | conj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 huge | cop |
| 14 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 much | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | its influence on Russian schools and the church | huge property | tree rules |
Option 4
Exactly true, nobody in Russia could read a single word before it opened
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 2 true | advmod |
| 2 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 read | punct |
| 4 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 read | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Russia | case |
| 6 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 nobody | nmod |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 read | aux |
| 8 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 true | parataxis |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 word | det |
| 10 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 word | amod |
| 11 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 read | obj |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 14 opened | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 opened | nsubj |
| 14 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 read | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | could | nobody | a single word | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 2 | open | past | word | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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