Test 2 · Ukraine in the Second World War

«Ukraine suffered more than any country in the war, period». wise way to say it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ukraine · What happens: suffer, say · To what, where: wise way, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 suffered	punct
2	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 suffered	nsubj
3	suffered	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 suffered	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 country	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 country	det
7	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 more	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 war	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 war	det
10	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 country	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 period	punct
12	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 war	conj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 suffered	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 way	punct
15	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 way	amod
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 suffered	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 say	mark
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 way	acl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 say	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 suffered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suffer in a quote	past	Ukraine	wise way					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Ukraine not said here	way					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=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.

The options

Option 1

The war never reached Ukraine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 war	det
2	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 reached	advmod
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not reach	past	the war	Ukraine					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ukraine=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Ukraine was among the hardest-hit; ranking suffering doesn't help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hit	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hit	aux:pass
3	among	among	ADP	_	7 hit	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hit	det
5	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 hit	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 hardest	punct
7	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 ranking	punct
9	ranking	rank	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 help	csubj
10	suffering	suffering	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ranking	obj
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 help	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 help	advmod
13	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hit	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hit	past · passive		Ukraine	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme
2	rank	gerund		suffering	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent suffering=Theme
3	not help	present · do-support	ranking		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Only Ukraine suffered, and nobody else in the world lost anyone in the war

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 suffered	advmod
2	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 suffered	nsubj
3	suffered	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lost	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lost	cc
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 lost	nsubj
7	else	else	ADV	_	6 nobody	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nobody	nmod
11	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 suffered	conj
12	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 lost	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 war	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 war	det
15	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suffer	past	Ukraine						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	lose	past	nobody	anyone		the war			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Eventuality

Option 4

Ukraine barely suffered at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 suffered	nsubj
2	barely	barely	ADV	_	3 suffered	advmod
3	suffered	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 suffered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suffer	past	Ukraine			all		barely property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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