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Test 8 · The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor

Danylo says the Soviets banned Ukrainian from day one. What's the full story?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Danylo, Soviets, full story · What happens: say, ban, be · To what, where: Ukrainian · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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 Soviets banned Ukrainian from day one.

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	4 Soviets	det
4	Soviets	Soviet	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 banned	nsubj
5	banned	ban	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
6	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 banned	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 day	case
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 banned	obl
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 day	flat
10	.	.	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	ban	past	the Soviets	Ukrainian			day		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer ukrainian=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 the full story?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the full story						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It was never touched at all

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	4 touched	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 touched	aux:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 touched	advmod
4	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 touched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not touch	past · passive		It		all			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme

Option 2

Yes, banned from day one, nothing in Ukrainian was ever printed in Soviet times

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 banned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 banned	punct
3	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 day	case
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 banned	obl
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 day	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 printed	punct
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 printed	nsubj:pass
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Ukrainian	case
10	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 nothing	nmod
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 printed	aux:pass
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 printed	advmod
13	printed	print	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 banned	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 times	case
15	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 times	compound
16	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 printed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	participle					day		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
2	print	past · passive		nothing			ever; time		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

Only the Pope banned it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 banned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Pope	det
3	Pope	Pope	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 banned	nsubj
4	banned	ban	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 banned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	past	the Pope	it					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

In the 1920s it grew, then in the 1930s it was reversed and writers were shot

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 1920s	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 1920s	det
3	1920s	1920s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	5 grew	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grew	nsubj
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 reversed	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 reversed	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 1930s	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 1930s	det
10	1930s	1930	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	13 reversed	obl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 reversed	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 reversed	aux:pass
13	reversed	reverse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 grew	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 shot	cc
15	writers	writer	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 shot	nsubj:pass
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 shot	aux:pass
17	shot	shoot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 reversed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	it			the 1920s			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1920s=Location
2	reverse	past · passive		it		the 1930s	then		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
3	shoot	past · passive		writers					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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