Exam question 4 · The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor
Ascertain which institution, founded in nineteen hundred and eighteen under Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky, continues to exist.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, institution · What happens: ascertain, found, continue, exist · To what, where: institution, nineteen hundred
This is exam question 4 of lesson 46 «The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor» of the history course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 institution | det |
| 3 | institution | institution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 continues | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 founded | punct |
| 5 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 institution | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hundred | case |
| 7 | nineteen | nineteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 hundred | compound |
| 8 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 founded | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 eighteen | cc |
| 10 | eighteen | eighteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 hundred | conj |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 Hetman | case |
| 12 | Hetman | Hetman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 founded | obl:agent |
| 13 | Pavlo | Pavlo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Hetman | flat |
| 14 | Skoropadsky | Skoropadsky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Hetman | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 continues | punct |
| 16 | continues | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ascertain | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 exist | mark |
| 18 | exist | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 continues | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | found | participle | which institution not said here | nineteen hundred | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | continue | present | which institution | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | exist | to-infinitive | which institution not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The Zaporizhian Sich
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sich | det |
| 2 | Zaporizhian | Zaporizhian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Sich | compound |
| 3 | Sich | Sich | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The West Ukrainian People's Republic
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 People | det |
| 2 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ukrainian | compound |
| 3 | Ukrainian | Ukrainian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 People | compound |
| 4 | People | People | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Republic | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 People | case |
| 6 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Central Rada
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Rada | det |
| 2 | Central | Central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Rada | amod |
| 3 | Rada | Rada | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Academy | det |
| 2 | Ukrainian | Ukrainian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Academy | compound |
| 3 | Academy | Academy | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Sciences | case |
| 5 | Sciences | Science | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 Academy | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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