Test 1 · Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations

Danylo says Ukraine's the biggest country in Europe, teacher says Russia's bigger. Who's right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Danylo, teacher · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 50 «Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations» 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 Ukraine's the biggest country in Europe, teacher says Russia's bigger.

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	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 country	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Ukraine	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 country	det
6	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 country	amod
7	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Europe	case
9	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 country	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct
11	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	conj
13	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 bigger	nsubj
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Russia	case
15	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 says	ccomp
16	.	.	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
2	say speech: assert	present	teacher						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

Only the teacher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 teacher	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 teacher	det
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Neither, France is bigger than both of them once you add in all its overseas lands

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	5 bigger	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 bigger	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bigger	cop
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 both	case
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 bigger	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 both	nmod
10	once	once	SCONJ	_	12 add	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 add	nsubj
12	add	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bigger	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 lands	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 lands	det:predet
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 lands	nmod:poss
16	overseas	overseas	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lands	amod
17	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 add	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	France					than both; big, neither property	tree rules
2	add speech: assert	present	you			its overseas lands			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Both, depending on the definition: Ukraine is the largest wholly in Europe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 depending	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Both	punct
3	depending	depend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 largest	advcl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 definition	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 definition	det
6	definition	definition	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 depending	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 largest	punct
8	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 largest	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 largest	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 largest	det
11	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
12	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	11 largest	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Europe	case
14	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 largest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	depend	gerund	Both					on the definition	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on definition=Theme
2	is	present	Ukraine			Europe		large, wholly property	tree rules

Option 4

Only Danylo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 Danylo	advmod
2	Danylo	Danylo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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