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Test 6 · Two empires and Shevchenko

Danylo says Franko and Lesia spoke twenty languages each. teacher wants a source. Wise move?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Danylo, Franko, teacher · What happens: say, speak, want · To what, where: twenty languages, source · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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 Franko and Lesia spoke twenty languages each. teacher wants a source.

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	Franko	Franko	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 spoke	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Lesia	cc
5	Lesia	Lesia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Franko	conj
6	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
7	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 languages	nummod
8	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spoke	obj
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 spoke	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
11	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wants	nsubj
12	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 source	det
14	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wants	obj
15	.	.	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	speak speech: other	past	Franko and Lesia	twenty languages					tree rules
3	want	present	teacher	a source					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot source=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: Wise move?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 move	amod
2	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 move	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Keep twenty, it sounds better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Keep	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sounds	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sounds	nsubj
5	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	parataxis
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 sounds	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	twenty					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twenty=Theme
2	sound	present	it					good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Say they spoke only one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	ccomp
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 one	advmod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 spoke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	speak speech: other	past	they	one					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Use numbers you can check, like «more than ten» for Franko

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Use	obj
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 check	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 check	aux
5	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 numbers	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ten	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	11 ten	case
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 ten	punct
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	11 ten	advmod
10	than	than	ADP	_	9 more	fixed
11	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Use	parataxis
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 ten	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 Franko	case
14	Franko	Franko	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	numbers				for Franko	tree rules
2	check	can	you	numbers not said here					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme

Option 4

Make it fifty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Make	obj
3	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	it					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary fifty=Product

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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