Test 12 · The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor

Danylo says western Ukraine was free between the wars. what's the fix?

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

This is test 12 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

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	western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Ukraine	amod
4	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 free	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 free	cop
6	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
7	between	between	ADP	_	9 wars	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wars	det
9	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 free	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 fix	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fix	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fix	det
14	fix	fix	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Danylo			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	western Ukraine		between the wars; free property	tree rules
3	is a	present		the fix		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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It was an independent kingdom

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	5 kingdom	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kingdom	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kingdom	det
4	independent	independent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kingdom	amod
5	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a independent kingdom					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It was split among Poland, Romania and Czechoslovakia

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 split	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 split	aux:pass
3	split	split	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	among	among	ADP	_	5 Poland	case
5	Poland	Poland	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 split	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Romania	punct
7	Romania	Romania	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Poland	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Czechoslovakia	cc
9	Czechoslovakia	Czechoslovakia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Poland	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	past · passive		It				among Poland and Romania and Czechoslovakia	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

It was ruled by the Sich

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 ruled	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ruled	aux:pass
3	ruled	rule	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 Sich	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sich	det
6	Sich	Sich	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ruled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	past · passive	the Sich	It					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 4

It was part of Canada

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 part	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 part	cop
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Canada	case
5	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 part	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	part				of Canada	tree rules

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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