Test 9 · Lithuanian and Polish times, the first Cossacks
Danylo says a Ukrainian girl ruled the Ottoman Empire. What's the right word?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Danylo, Ukrainian girl, right word · What happens: say, rule, be · To what, where: Ottoman Empire · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 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 a Ukrainian girl ruled the Ottoman Empire.
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 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 4 | Ukrainian | ukrainian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 girl | amod |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ruled | nsubj |
| 6 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Empire | det |
| 8 | Ottoman | Ottoman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Empire | compound |
| 9 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ruled | obj |
| 10 | . | . | 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 | rule | past | a Ukrainian girl | the Ottoman Empire | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent empire=Result |
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 the right word?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 word | det |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 word | amod |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the right word | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Hetman: she led the Cossacks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hetman | hetman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hetman | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 led | nsubj |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Cossacks | det |
| 6 | Cossacks | Cossack | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 led | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | she | Hetman | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cossack=Theme |
Option 2
Sultan: she ruled alone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ruled | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sultan | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ruled | nsubj |
| 4 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 ruled | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past | she | Sultan | alone property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Nothing: she was never there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 there | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | cop |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 there | advmod |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Nothing | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | she | there property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Influential: she had great power at court but did not rule
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Influential | influential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 had | advcl |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Influential | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 power | amod |
| 6 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 court | case |
| 8 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obl |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 rule | cc |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rule | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 rule | advmod |
| 12 | rule | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 had | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | she | great power | court | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | |||
| 2 | not rule | past · do-support | she not said here | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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