Test 8 · The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the war
«Everyone said Kyiv falls in 3 days». What's the lesson from 2022?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Everyone, Kyiv, lesson · What happens: say, fall, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 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: «Everyone said Kyiv falls in 3 days».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 2 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Kyiv | Kyiv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 falls | nsubj |
| 5 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 days | case |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 days | nummod |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 falls | obl |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 falls | punct |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Everyone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fall in a quote | present | Kyiv | day | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 the lesson from 2022?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lesson | det |
| 4 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 2022 | case |
| 6 | 2022 | 2022 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 lesson | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the lesson from 2022 | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Experts can be wrong; facts on the ground decide
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Experts | expert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrong | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wrong | cop |
| 4 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 decide | punct |
| 6 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 decide | nsubj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 ground | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ground | det |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 facts | nmod |
| 10 | decide | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrong | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | Experts | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | decide | present | facts on the ground | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Kyiv did fall in 3 days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kyiv | Kyiv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fall | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fall | aux |
| 3 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 days | case |
| 5 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 days | nummod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fall | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past · do-support | Kyiv | day | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Experts are always right
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Experts | expert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 right | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 right | advmod |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Experts | always, right property | tree rules |
Option 4
Nobody ever made predictions
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 predictions | nsubj |
| 2 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 made | advmod |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 predictions | amod |
| 4 | predictions | prediction | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | ever | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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