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Test 11 · The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor

Danylo says the 1937–38 purges only hit Ukrainians. What's fair?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Danylo, 1937 purges · What happens: say, hit, be · To what, where: Ukrainians · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 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: Danylo says the 1937–38 purges only hit Ukrainians.

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 purges	det
4	1937	1937	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 purges	nummod
5	–	–	PUNCT	_	6 38	punct
6	38	38	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 1937	conj
7	purges	purge	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hit	nsubj
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 hit	advmod
9	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
10	Ukrainians	Ukrainian	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 hit	obj
11	.	.	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	hit	past	the 1937 purges	Ukrainians					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ukrainian=Co-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: 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

Only Germans were arrested

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 Germans	advmod
2	Germans	german	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 arrested	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arrested	aux:pass
4	arrested	arrest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrest	past · passive		Germans					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

All Soviet peoples suffered; Ukraine was hit very hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 peoples	det
2	Soviet	soviet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 peoples	amod
3	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 suffered	nsubj
4	suffered	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 hit	punct
6	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 hit	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hit	aux:pass
8	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 suffered	ccomp
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 hard	advmod
10	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 hit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suffer	past	all Soviet peoples						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	hit	past · passive		Ukraine				hard property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme

Option 3

Nobody was ever arrested

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 arrested	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arrested	aux:pass
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 arrested	advmod
4	arrested	arrest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrest	past · passive		Nobody			ever		vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Only Ukrainians were touched

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 Ukrainians	advmod
2	Ukrainians	Ukrainian	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 touched	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 touched	aux:pass
4	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	past · passive		Ukrainians					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme

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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