Exam question 3 · The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the war

Select the response consistent with the position of the United Nations General Assembly in respect of the referendum held in Crimea in two thousand and fourteen.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, hold, respect · To what, where: response, respect, referendum, Crimea

This is exam question 3 of lesson 49 «The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the war» of the history course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	amod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 position	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 position	det
7	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consistent	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 Nations	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Nations	det
10	United	United	PROPN	_	11 Nations	compound
11	Nations	Nation	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 position	nmod
12	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Assembly	flat
13	Assembly	Assembly	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Nations	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 respect	case
15	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 referendum	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 referendum	det
18	referendum	referendum	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 respect	nmod
19	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 referendum	acl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 Crimea	case
21	Crimea	Crimea	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 held	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 thousand	case
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 thousand	compound
24	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 held	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fourteen	cc
26	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 thousand	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	respect of the referendum		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	hold	participle		the referendum not said here	Crimea	in two thousand	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in crimea=Location
3	respect			the referendum			nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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

The referendum was declared fair and binding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 referendum	det
2	referendum	referendum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 declared	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 declared	aux:pass
4	declared	declare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 declared	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 binding	cc
7	binding	bind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 fair	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past · passive		the referendum				fair property	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
2	bind	gerund							vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The referendum was declared invalid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 referendum	det
2	referendum	referendum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 declared	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 declared	aux:pass
4	declared	declare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	invalid	invalid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 declared	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past · passive		the referendum					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute

Option 3

No position was ever taken by any body

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 position	det
2	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taken	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	aux:pass
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 taken	advmod
5	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 body	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 body	det
8	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · passive	any body	no position			ever		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 4

The referendum was conducted by the Assembly itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 referendum	det
2	referendum	referendum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 conducted	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 conducted	aux:pass
4	conducted	conduct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 Assembly	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Assembly	det
7	Assembly	Assembly	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 conducted	obl
8	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	7 Assembly	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conduct	past · passive	the Assembly referendum	the referendum					vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war/e3/