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Test 10 · The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor

Teacher calls it «a famine in the USSR». What did he add to be truthful?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Teacher · What happens: call, add, be · To what, where: it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 46 «The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor» 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: Teacher calls it «a famine in the USSR».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 calls	nsubj
2	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 calls	obj
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 famine	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 famine	det
6	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 calls	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 USSR	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 USSR	det
9	USSR	USSR	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 famine	nmod
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 famine	punct
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 calls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	Teacher	it					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

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 did he add to be truthful?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 add	obl
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 add	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 add	nsubj
4	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 truthful	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 truthful	cop
7	truthful	truthful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 add	xcomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 add	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	past · do-support	Teacher						vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	to-infinitive	Teacher not said here					truthful property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

That it was man-made and many countries call it genocide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 made	obl
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux:pass
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 man	punct
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 call	cc
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 countries	amod
9	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 call	nsubj
10	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 made	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 call	obj
12	genocide	genocide	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 call	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		it				That obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	call	present	many countries	it					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

Option 2

That it happened in Brazil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 happened	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happened	nsubj
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Brazil	case
5	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 happened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	That			Brazil			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in brazil=Location

Option 3

That it was caused only by weather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 caused	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 caused	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 caused	aux:pass
4	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 weather	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 weather	case
7	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caused	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	past · passive	weather	That					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient

Option 4

That it never really hurt anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 hurt	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hurt	nsubj:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 hurt	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 hurt	advmod
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hurt	participle · passive		That					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer anyone=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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