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Test 1 · Chornobyl and independence in 1991

Danylo says Ukrainian poets beat the USSR with poems. What's fairer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Danylo, Ukrainian poets · What happens: say, beat, be · To what, where: USSR · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 48 «Chornobyl and independence in 1991» 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 Ukrainian poets beat the USSR with poems.

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	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 poets	amod
4	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 beat	nsubj
5	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 USSR	det
7	USSR	USSR	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 beat	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 poems	case
9	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 beat	obl
10	.	.	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	beat	present	Ukrainian poets	the USSR				with poems	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ussr=Patient with poem=Instrument

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 fairer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 fairer	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fairer	cop
3	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fairer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fair property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only Russian poets wrote then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 poets	advmod
2	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 poets	amod
3	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wrote	nsubj
4	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 wrote	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	Russian poets				then		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Poets had nothing to do with anything that happened in the Soviet Union

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 had	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 nothing	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 anything	case
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 do	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 happened	nsubj
9	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 anything	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 Union	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Union	det
12	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Union	compound
13	Union	Union	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 happened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Poets	nothing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	do	to-infinitive	Poets not said here	nothing not said here				with anything	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	happen	past				the Soviet Union			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in union=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They didn't bring it down alone, but they kept the culture alive

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	4 bring	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bring	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 bring	advmod
4	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bring	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 bring	compound:prt
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 bring	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kept	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 kept	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kept	nsubj
11	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bring	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 culture	det
13	culture	culture	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kept	obj
14	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bring down	past · do-support	They	it				alone property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	keep	past	they	the culture				alive property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent culture=Theme

Option 4

Yes, one poem toppled the USSR

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 toppled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 poem	nummod
4	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 toppled	nsubj
5	toppled	topple	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 USSR	det
7	USSR	USSR	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 toppled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	topple	past	one poem	the USSR					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ussr=Patient

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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