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Test 9 · The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor

«10 million died in the Holodomor, everyone knows that», Danylo says. What's the honest move?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: 10 million, everyone, Danylo, honest move · What happens: die, know, say, be · To what, where: that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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: «10 million died in the Holodomor, everyone knows that», Danylo says.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 died	punct
2	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 million	compound
3	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 says	ccomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 Holodomor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Holodomor	det
7	Holodomor	Holodomor	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 died	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 knows	punct
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 knows	nsubj
10	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 died	conj
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 knows	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 knows	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 says	punct
14	Danylo	Danylo	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 says	nsubj
15	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die in a quote	past	10 million					in the Holodomor	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in holodomor=Attribute
2	know in a quote	present	everyone	that					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	present	Danylo						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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 honest move?

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 move	det
4	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 move	amod
5	move	move	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 honest move						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Say nobody died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 died	nsubj
3	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	die	past	nobody						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

Refuse to talk about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 talk	mark
3	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Refuse	xcomp
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	imperative	you not said here						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not talk	to-infinitive	you not said here					about it	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 3

Say 20 million, it sounds stronger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 million	compound
3	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Say	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sounds	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sounds	nsubj
6	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	parataxis
7	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 sounds	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	20 million					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent million=Topic
2	sound	present	it					strong property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Use the newer estimates of about 3.5 to 5 million; the truth is terrible enough

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 estimates	det
3	newer	new	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 estimates	amod
4	estimates	estimate	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Use	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 3.5	case
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 3.5	advmod
7	3.5	3.5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac	4 estimates	nmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 million	case
9	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 million	compound
10	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 3.5	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 terrible	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 truth	det
13	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 terrible	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 terrible	cop
15	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Use	conj
16	enough	enough	ADV	_	15 terrible	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	the newer estimates of 3.5 to 5 million					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent estimate=Patient
2	is	present	the truth					enough, terrible property	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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