Test 11 · Ukraine in the Second World War
Danylo says there were three famines in Soviet Ukraine. teacher knows one. Who's right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Danylo, three famines, teacher · What happens: say, be, know · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 of lesson 47 «Ukraine in the Second World War» 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 there were three famines in Soviet Ukraine. teacher knows 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 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 were | expl |
| 4 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 famines | nummod |
| 6 | famines | famine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 were | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Ukraine | case |
| 8 | Soviet | Soviet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ukraine | compound |
| 9 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 famines | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| 11 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knows | nsubj |
| 12 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 knows | obj |
| 14 | . | . | 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 | be | past | three famines in Soviet Ukraine | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | present | teacher | one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
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: Who's right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Both wrong, there were ten
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 wrong | det |
| 2 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ten | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 were | punct |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 were | expl |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ten | cop |
| 6 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | both wrong | ten | tree rules |
Option 2
The teacher: just one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 teacher | det |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 one | advmod |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 teacher | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Neither, there were none
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 4 were | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Neither | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 were | expl |
| 4 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 4 were | nsubj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | none | there | neither property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Danylo: 1921–23, 1932–33 and 1946–47
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danylo | Danylo | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 1921 | punct |
| 3 | 1921 | 1921 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Danylo | appos |
| 4 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 5 23 | case |
| 5 | 23 | 23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 1921 | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 1932 | punct |
| 7 | 1932 | 1932 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Danylo | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 9 33 | case |
| 9 | 33 | 33 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 1932 | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 1946 | cc |
| 11 | 1946 | 1946 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 1932 | conj |
| 12 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 13 47 | case |
| 13 | 47 | 47 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 1932 | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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