Test 10 · ★ · The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate
Teacher: «Ukraine was Russia till 1991». Danylo: «Ukraine was always free». Fair answer?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ukraine · What happens: be · To what, where: Ukraine Russia
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 44 «The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate» 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: Teacher: «Ukraine was Russia till 1991».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Russia | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 Russia | punct |
| 4 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Russia | compound |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Russia | cop |
| 6 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Teacher | appos |
| 7 | till | till | ADP | _ | 8 1991 | case |
| 8 | 1991 | 1991 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 Russia | nmod |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 Russia | punct |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Teacher | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | Ukraine Russia | till 1991 | tree rules |
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: Danylo: «Ukraine was always free».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danylo | Danylo | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 free | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 free | punct |
| 4 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 free | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 free | cop |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 free | advmod |
| 7 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Danylo | parataxis |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 free | punct |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Danylo | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | Ukraine | always, free property | tree rules |
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
The teacher's fully right
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 | 5 right | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 teacher | case |
| 4 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 5 right | advmod |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Danylo's fully right
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danylo | Danylo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 right | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Danylo | case |
| 3 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 4 right | advmod |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Both are right at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 right | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Both | right property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Neither: Ukrainian lands were long ruled by empires but kept their own culture
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 ruled | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 ruled | punct |
| 3 | Ukrainian | ukrainian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lands | amod |
| 4 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ruled | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ruled | aux:pass |
| 6 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 ruled | advmod |
| 7 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 empires | case |
| 9 | empires | empire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ruled | obl |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 kept | cc |
| 11 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ruled | conj |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 culture | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 culture | amod |
| 14 | culture | culture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kept | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past · passive | empires | Neither | long property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | keep | past | empires not said here | lands's own culture | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent culture=Theme |
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