Test 5 · The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the war
«donbas rebels were ALL russian soldiers lol». What's fairer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: donbas rebels · What happens: be · To what, where: russian soldiers
This is test 5 of lesson 49 «The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the war» 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: «donbas rebels were ALL russian soldiers lol».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 rebels | punct |
| 2 | donbas | donbas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rebels | compound |
| 3 | rebels | rebel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 soldiers | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 soldiers | cop |
| 5 | ALL | all | ADV | _ | 7 soldiers | advmod |
| 6 | russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 soldiers | amod |
| 7 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 7 soldiers | discourse |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 soldiers | punct |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 soldiers | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | donbas rebels | russian soldiers | all 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.
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
All of them were Ukrainian army
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 army | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 All | nmod |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 army | cop |
| 5 | Ukrainian | ukrainian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 army | amod |
| 6 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | All | Ukrainian army | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A Russian-backed war with both local and Russian fighters
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 war | det |
| 2 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 backed | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Russian | punct |
| 4 | backed | back | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 war | amod |
| 5 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 fighters | case |
| 7 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 8 local | cc:preconj |
| 8 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fighters | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Russian | cc |
| 10 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 local | conj |
| 11 | fighters | fighter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 war | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | back | participle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
All of them were tourists
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 tourists | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 All | nmod |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tourists | cop |
| 5 | tourists | tourist | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | All | tourists | tree rules |
Option 4
There was no fighting in Donbas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 fighting | det |
| 4 | fighting | fighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Donbas | case |
| 6 | Donbas | Donbas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fighting | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no fighting in Donbas | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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