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Test 4 · Two empires and Shevchenko

Danylo says the tsar sent Shevchenko away just for writing Ukrainian. What's more exact?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Danylo, tsar · What happens: say, send away, be · To what, where: Shevchenko · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 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 the tsar sent Shevchenko away just for writing Ukrainian.

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tsar	det
4	tsar	tsar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	nsubj
5	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
6	Shevchenko	Shevchenko	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 sent	advmod
8	just	just	ADV	_	10 writing	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 writing	case
10	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obl
11	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 writing	appos
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 clause=Topic
2	send away	past	the tsar	Shevchenko				for writing; away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shevchenko=Theme

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 more exact?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 exact	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 exact	cop
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 exact	advmod
4	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 exact	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						exact property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Only for the language

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 language	advmod
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 language	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 language	det
4	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

He was never exiled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 exiled	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 exiled	aux:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 exiled	advmod
4	exiled	exile	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not exile	past · passive		He					vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Mainly for poems mocking the tsar and the empire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mainly	mainly	ADV	_	3 poems	advmod
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 poems	case
3	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	mocking	mock	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 poems	acl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tsar	det
6	tsar	tsar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mocking	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 empire	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 empire	det
9	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poems	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mock	gerund	poems and the empire not said here	the tsar					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tsar=Theme

Option 4

For stealing a horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	SCONJ	_	2 stealing	mark
2	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stealing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	gerund		a horse					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=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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