Test 3 · The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor

«300 kids stopped the entire Bolshevik army at Kruty, end of story» — fix it.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: 300 kids · What happens: stop, fix · To what, where: entire Bolshevik army, Kruty, army

This is test 3 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 stopped	punct
2	300	300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 kids	nummod
3	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stopped	nsubj
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 army	det
6	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 army	amod
7	Bolshevik	Bolshevik	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 army	compound
8	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 Kruty	case
10	Kruty	Kruty	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 army	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 end	punct
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 army	appos
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 story	case
14	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 end	nmod
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 end	punct
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 fix	punct
17	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stopped	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fix	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stopped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop in a quote	past	300 kids	the entire Bolshevik army		Kruty			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector army=Eventuality
2	fix	infinitive	300 kids not said here	army					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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

They destroyed the whole army, and the Bolsheviks never came back to Ukraine again

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 destroyed	nsubj
2	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 army	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 army	amod
5	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 destroyed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Bolsheviks	det
9	Bolsheviks	bolshevik	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 came	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 came	advmod
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 destroyed	parataxis
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 Ukraine	case
14	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
15	again	again	ADV	_	11 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	destroy	past	They	the whole army					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Patient
2	not come back	past	the Bolsheviks			Ukraine	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ukraine=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A few hundred fought bravely, delayed the advance briefly, and many died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hundred	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hundred	amod
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 fought	nsubj
4	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bravely	bravely	ADV	_	4 fought	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 delayed	punct
7	delayed	delay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fought	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 advance	det
9	advance	advance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 delayed	obj
10	briefly	briefly	ADV	_	7 delayed	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 died	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 died	cc
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 died	nsubj
14	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fought	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fight	past	a few hundred		bravely property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	delay	past	a few hundred not said here	the advance	briefly property	vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent advance=Source
3	die	past	many			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nobody fought at Kruty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 fought	nsubj
2	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 Kruty	case
4	Kruty	Kruty	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	Nobody			Kruty			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Kruty was in France

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kruty	Kruty	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 France	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 France	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 France	case
4	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Kruty			France			tree rules

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