Test 8 · Two empires and Shevchenko
Danylo says Odesa's been Ukrainian since forever. What's the fix?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Danylo, fix · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 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 Odesa's been Ukrainian since forever.
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 | Odesa | Odesa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ukrainian | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Odesa | case |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 Ukrainian | cop |
| 6 | Ukrainian | ukrainian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 says | ccomp |
| 7 | since | since | ADP | _ | 8 forever | case |
| 8 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 6 Ukrainian | obl |
| 9 | . | . | 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 | participle | ukrainian property | tree rules |
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 the fix?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fix | det |
| 4 | fix | fix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the fix | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It was founded in 1991
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 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 1991 | case |
| 5 | 1991 | 1991 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 founded | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found | past · passive | It | 1991 | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 2
It was founded by Kyi in 482
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 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 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 Kyi | case |
| 5 | Kyi | Kyi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 founded | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 482 | case |
| 7 | 482 | 482 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 founded | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found | past · passive | Kyi | It | 482 | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
Option 3
It was always Greek
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 Greek | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Greek | cop |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 Greek | advmod |
| 4 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | always, greek property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
It is a young, mixed port founded in 1794, now part of Ukraine
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 port | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 port | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 port | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 port | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 young | punct |
| 6 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 port | amod |
| 7 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 port | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 1794 | case |
| 10 | 1794 | 1794 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 founded | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 part | punct |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 part | advmod |
| 13 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 port | parataxis |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Ukraine | case |
| 15 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 part | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mix | participle | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | It | a young mixed port | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | found | participle | a young mixed port not said here | 1794 | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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