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Test 2 · Chornobyl and independence in 1991

Danylo says Chornobyl killed millions; teacher says only 31. Who's right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Danylo, Chornobyl, teacher · What happens: say, kill, be · To what, where: millions, 31 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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 Chornobyl killed millions; teacher says only 31.

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	Chornobyl	Chornobyl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 killed	nsubj
4	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
5	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 killed	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
7	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	conj
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 31	advmod
10	31	31	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 says	obj
11	.	.	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	kill	past	Chornobyl	millions					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent million=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present	teacher	31					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent 31=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.

Sentence 2: Who's right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Neither: 31 died quickly, and long-term deaths are debated

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	3 31	advmod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	31	31	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	4 died	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 debated	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 debated	cc
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 term	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 long	punct
10	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 deaths	compound
11	deaths	death	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 debated	nsubj:pass
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 debated	aux:pass
13	debated	debate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 died	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	31					quickly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	debate	present · passive		term deaths					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent

Option 2

The teacher, and nobody else ever died of it, not even years later

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 died	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 died	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 died	cc
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 died	nsubj
6	else	else	ADV	_	5 nobody	advmod
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 died	advmod
8	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 died	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 years	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 years	advmod
13	even	even	ADV	_	14 years	advmod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 later	obl:unmarked
15	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 died	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	the teacher				ever	of it; late property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of it=Causer

Option 3

Both, it killed exactly 31 million

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 killed	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Both	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Both	nmod
4	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 million	advmod
6	31	31	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 million	compound
7	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 killed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past	Both	31 million					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent million=Theme

Option 4

Danylo, millions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Danylo	Danylo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 millions	punct
3	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Danylo	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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