Test 3 · Chornobyl and independence in 1991

«moscow hid chornobyl from literally everyone» — is that right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: moscow, that · What happens: hide, be · To what, where: chornobyl, everyone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 hid	punct
2	moscow	moscow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hid	nsubj
3	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 right	csubj
4	chornobyl	chornobyl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hid	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 everyone	case
6	literally	literally	ADV	_	7 everyone	advmod
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 hid	obl
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 hid	punct
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	3 hid	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 right	cop
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 right	nsubj
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide in a quote	past	moscow	chornobyl		everyone			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent chornobyl=Patient from everyone=Beneficiary
2	is	present	that					right property	tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice

Sweden caused the accident

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweden	Sweden	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 caused	nsubj
2	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 accident	det
4	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caused	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	past	Sweden	the accident					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition accident=Patient

Option 2

Nobody ever found out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 found	nsubj
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 found	advmod
3	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 found	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find out	participle	Nobody				ever		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Totally wrong, they warned everyone at once on the radio and on television

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Totally	totally	ADV	_	2 wrong	advmod
2	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 warned	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 warned	nsubj
5	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wrong	conj
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 warned	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 warned	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 radio	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 radio	det
11	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 warned	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 television	cc
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 television	case
14	television	television	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 radio	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	past	they		everyone			on the radio and television	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient on radio=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Mostly: they announced it briefly, but hid the danger for days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mostly	mostly	ADV	_	4 announced	advmod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 announced	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 announced	nsubj
4	announced	announce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 announced	obj
6	briefly	briefly	ADV	_	4 announced	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hid	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 hid	cc
9	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 announced	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 danger	det
11	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hid	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 days	case
13	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	announce speech: other	past	they	it				briefly, mostly property	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	hide	past	they not said here	the danger			day		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent danger=Patient

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