Test 7 · Ukraine in the Second World War
Danylo says only Ukrainians were deported by Stalin. What's the fix?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Danylo, Stalin, fix · What happens: say, deport, be · To what, where: Ukrainians · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 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 only Ukrainians were deported by Stalin.
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 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 Ukrainians | advmod |
| 4 | Ukrainians | Ukrainian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 deported | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 deported | aux:pass |
| 6 | deported | deport | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 says | ccomp |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Stalin | case |
| 8 | Stalin | Stalin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 deported | obl |
| 9 | . | . | 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 | deport | past · passive | Stalin | Ukrainians | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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 fix?
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 | 4 fix | det |
| 4 | fix | fix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the fix | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Only Americans were
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 Americans | advmod |
| 2 | Americans | American | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Americans | cop |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Americans | tree rules |
Option 2
Yes, only Ukrainians
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 Ukrainians | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 Ukrainians | advmod |
| 4 | Ukrainians | Ukrainian | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Many peoples were, including the whole Crimean Tatar people in 1944
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 peoples | amod |
| 2 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 people | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 people | cop |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 people | punct |
| 5 | including | including | ADP | _ | 10 people | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 people | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 people | amod |
| 8 | Crimean | Crimean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Tatar | compound |
| 9 | Tatar | Tatar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 people | compound |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 1944 | case |
| 12 | 1944 | 1944 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 people | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Many peoples | 1944 | including the whole Tatar people | tree rules |
Option 4
Nobody was ever deported
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 deported | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 deported | aux:pass |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 deported | advmod |
| 4 | deported | deport | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deport | past · passive | Nobody | ever | vn banish-10.2 «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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