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Test 11 · Chornobyl and independence in 1991

Danylo says Cossacks chose blue for sky and yellow for wheat. What did they find?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Danylo, Cossacks · What happens: say, choose, find · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 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 Cossacks chose blue for sky and yellow for wheat.

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	Cossacks	Cossack	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 chose	nsubj
4	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chose	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 sky	case
7	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blue	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 yellow	cc
9	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blue	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 wheat	case
11	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 yellow	obl
12	.	.	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	choose	past	Cossacks					blue property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 did they find?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 find	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 find	nsubj
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · do-support	Cossacks = cossack						vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The flag was chosen by Eurovision

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flag	det
2	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chosen	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chosen	aux:pass
4	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 Eurovision	case
6	Eurovision	Eurovision	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 chosen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past · passive	Eurovision	the flag					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 2

The flag was red and black

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flag	det
2	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 red	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 red	cop
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 black	cc
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 red	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the flag					red property	tree rules
2	be		the flag not said here						tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The colours come from Galician arms of 1848; the sky-wheat idea came later

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 colours	det
2	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 arms	case
5	Galician	Galician	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 arms	compound
6	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 1848	case
8	1848	1848	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 arms	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 idea	det
11	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wheat	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 sky	punct
13	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 idea	compound
14	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 come	conj
16	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	the colours			Galician arms of 1848			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from arm=Initial_Location
2	come	past	the wheat idea					late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Exactly what the Cossacks decreed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	_	2 what	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 decreed	obj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Cossacks	det
4	Cossacks	Cossack	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 decreed	nsubj
5	decreed	decree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decree	past	the Cossacks						vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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