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Test 6 · The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor

Danylo says Petliura was a pure hero, no questions allowed. What would a historian say?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Danylo, Petliura, historian · What happens: say, be, allow · To what, where: pure hero, questions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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 Petliura was a pure hero, no questions allowed.

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	Petliura	Petliura	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hero	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hero	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hero	det
6	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hero	amod
7	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 questions	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 questions	det
10	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hero	conj
11	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 questions	acl
12	.	.	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
2	is a	past	Petliura	a pure hero and no questions					tree rules
3	allow	participle		no questions not said here					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

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 would a historian say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 historian	det
4	historian	historian	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	a historian						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

He lived in ancient Rome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 Rome	case
4	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Rome	amod
5	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	He			ancient Rome			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rome=Location

Option 2

He was only a villain, nothing else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 villain	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 villain	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 villain	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 villain	det
5	villain	villain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nothing	punct
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 villain	appos
8	else	else	ADV	_	7 nothing	advmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Questions about history are forbidden, because heroes must never be doubted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 forbidden	nsubj:pass
2	about	about	ADP	_	3 history	case
3	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Questions	nmod
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 forbidden	aux:pass
5	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 doubted	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 doubted	mark
8	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 doubted	nsubj:pass
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 doubted	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 doubted	advmod
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 doubted	aux:pass
12	doubted	doubt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 forbidden	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forbid	present · passive		Questions about history					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	not doubt	must · passive		heroes					vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Many honour him, but the pogroms debate is real and should be named

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 honour	nsubj
2	honour	honour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 honour	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 debate	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 debate	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pogroms	det
7	pogroms	pogrom	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 debate	nsubj
8	debate	debate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 honour	parataxis
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 real	cop
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 debate	ccomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 named	cc
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 named	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 named	aux:pass
14	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 honour	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	honour	present	Many	him = he					tree rules
2	debate	present	the pogroms						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	the pogroms not said here					real property	tree rules
4	name	should · passive	Many not said here						vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»

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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