Test 1 · Two empires and Shevchenko
Danylo says Russia was the only empire that ever ruled Ukraine. What would the teacher show?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Danylo, Russia · What happens: say, be, rule · To what, where: only empire · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 of lesson 45 «Two empires and Shevchenko» 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 Russia was the only empire that ever ruled Ukraine.
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 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 empire | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 empire | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 empire | det |
| 6 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 empire | amod |
| 7 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | ccomp |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 ruled | obj |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 ruled | advmod |
| 10 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 empire | acl:relcl |
| 11 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ruled | obj |
| 12 | . | . | 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 | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Russia | the only empire | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rule | past | the only empire | ever | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme ukraine=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 would the teacher show?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 show | det |
| 4 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 show | compound |
| 5 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
A map of the Roman Empire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 map | det |
| 2 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Empire | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Empire | det |
| 5 | Roman | Roman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Empire | compound |
| 6 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 map | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A map of Canada
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 map | det |
| 2 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Canada | case |
| 4 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 map | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A map with Galicia, Bukovyna and Transcarpathia in the Austrian Empire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 map | det |
| 2 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 Galicia | case |
| 4 | Galicia | Galicia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 map | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Bukovyna | punct |
| 6 | Bukovyna | Bukovyna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Galicia | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Transcarpathia | cc |
| 8 | Transcarpathia | Transcarpathia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Galicia | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Empire | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Empire | det |
| 11 | Austrian | austrian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Empire | amod |
| 12 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Transcarpathia | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Nothing, Danylo is right, Russia was the only empire that ever came there
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 right | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | Danylo | Danylo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 right | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 right | cop |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 empire | punct |
| 7 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 empire | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 empire | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 empire | det |
| 10 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 empire | amod |
| 11 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 right | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 came | obl |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 came | advmod |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 empire | acl:relcl |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 came | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Nothing | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Russia | the only empire | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the only empire | there | ever | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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