Test 6 · Ukraine in the Second World War

If Ukrainian and Polish historians refused to talk about Volhynia, what would likely happen?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ukrainian historians · What happens: refuse, not talk, happen

This is test 6 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 refused	mark
2	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 historians	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Polish	cc
4	Polish	polish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Ukrainian	conj
5	historians	historian	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 refused	nsubj
6	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 talk	mark
8	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 refused	xcomp
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 Volhynia	case
10	Volhynia	Volhynia	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 talk	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 happen	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 happen	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 happen	aux
14	likely	likely	ADV	_	15 happen	advmod
15	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 talk	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 refused	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	Ukrainian historians		vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not talk	to-infinitive	Ukrainian historians not said here	about Volhynia	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about volhynia=Topic
3	happen	would		likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

Nothing, history doesn't matter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 matter	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 history	punct
3	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 matter	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 matter	advmod
6	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	Nothing						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Old anger would stay and the two peoples would trust each other less

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 anger	amod
2	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stay	aux
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 trust	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 peoples	det
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 peoples	nummod
8	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 trust	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 trust	aux
10	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stay	conj
11	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	10 trust	obj
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 each	fixed
13	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 trust	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	Old anger						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	trust	would	the two peoples	each				less property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme

Option 3

The past would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 past	det
2	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 change	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 change	aux
4	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	the past						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They would become closer friends because they had nothing left to argue about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 friends	amod
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 become	xcomp
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 had	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 become	advcl
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 had	obj
10	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 nothing	acl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 argue	mark
12	argue	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 left	advcl
13	about	about	ADP	_	12 argue	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	become	would	They	closer friends	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	have	past	friends = friend	nothing	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	leave	participle			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	argue speech: disagree	to-infinitive			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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