Test 9 · ★ · The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate

What would happen to Cossack traditions if the Sich was destroyed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, destroy · To what, where: Sich

This is test 9 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 traditions	case
5	Cossack	cossack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 traditions	compound
6	traditions	tradition	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 destroyed	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sich	det
9	Sich	Sich	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 destroyed	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 destroyed	aux:pass
11	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to Cossack traditions	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	destroy a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		the Sich					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The Cossacks became Swedes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Cossacks	det
2	Cossacks	Cossack	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Swedes	swede	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the Cossacks	Swedes					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Sich ended, but songs, dances and memory lived on elsewhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sich	det
2	Sich	Sich	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ended	nsubj
3	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lived	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 lived	cc
6	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lived	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dances	punct
8	dances	dance	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 songs	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 memory	cc
10	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 songs	conj
11	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ended	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 elsewhere	case
13	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	_	11 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	past	the Sich						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	live	past	songs and dances and memory						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on elsewhere=Location

Option 3

Nothing, the Sich went on as before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 went	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sich	det
4	Sich	Sich	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 before	advmod
8	before	before	ADV	_	5 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	the Sich					Nothing vocative; before property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Every Cossack tradition vanished that day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 tradition	det
2	Cossack	cossack	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tradition	compound
3	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vanished	nsubj
4	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vanished	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past	every Cossack tradition				day		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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