Test 7 · Two empires and Shevchenko
Danylo says Ukrainians built Canada. What's fair?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Danylo, Ukrainians · What happens: say, build, be · To what, where: Canada · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 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 Ukrainians built Canada.
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 | Ukrainians | Ukrainian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 built | nsubj |
| 4 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 5 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 built | obj |
| 6 | . | . | 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 | build | past | Ukrainians | Canada | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canada=Product |
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 fair?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 fair | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fair | cop |
| 3 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fair | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fair property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
They helped settle the Prairies, after Indigenous peoples and with many others
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 helped | nsubj |
| 2 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 helped | xcomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prairies | det |
| 5 | Prairies | Prairie | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 settle | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 peoples | punct |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 peoples | case |
| 8 | Indigenous | indigenous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 peoples | amod |
| 9 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 helped | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 others | cc |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 others | case |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 others | amod |
| 13 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 peoples | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | past | They | after Indigenous peoples and many others | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | settle | infinitive | They not said here | the Prairies | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme prairie=Location |
Option 2
They built every Canadian city alone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 built | nsubj |
| 2 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 city | det |
| 4 | Canadian | Canadian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 city | amod |
| 5 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 built | obj |
| 6 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 2 built | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | They | every Canadian city | alone property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset city=Product |
Option 3
Canada was founded in Kyiv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 founded | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 founded | aux:pass |
| 3 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Kyiv | case |
| 5 | Kyiv | Kyiv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 founded | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found | past · passive | Canada | Kyiv | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 4
They never went to Canada, because they all moved to Brazil and Argentina instead
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Canada | case |
| 5 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 moved | punct |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 moved | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 moved | nsubj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 they | det |
| 10 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Brazil | case |
| 12 | Brazil | Brazil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 moved | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Argentina | cc |
| 14 | Argentina | Argentina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Brazil | conj |
| 15 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | past | They | Canada | instead property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to canada=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | move | past | they | Brazil and Argentina | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to brazil=Result |
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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