Test 10 · Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations
Danylo says nobody ever spoke Russian in Ukraine. What's the honest picture?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Danylo, nobody, honest picture · What happens: say, speak, be · To what, where: Russian, Ukraine · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 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 nobody ever spoke Russian in Ukraine.
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 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 spoke | advmod |
| 5 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 6 | Russian | Russian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 spoke | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Ukraine | case |
| 8 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 spoke | obl |
| 9 | . | . | 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 clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | nobody | Russian | Ukraine | ever | 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 the honest picture?
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 | 5 picture | det |
| 4 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 picture | amod |
| 5 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the honest picture | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Ukrainian is not a state language
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ukrainian | Ukrainian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 language | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 language | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 language | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 language | det |
| 5 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 language | compound |
| 6 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | Ukrainian | a state language | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Many did at home for historical reasons, and many have switched to Ukrainian
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 home | case |
| 4 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 reasons | case |
| 6 | historical | historical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 reasons | amod |
| 7 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 did | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 switched | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 switched | cc |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 switched | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 switched | aux |
| 12 | switched | switch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 did | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Ukrainian | case |
| 14 | Ukrainian | Ukrainian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 switched | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Many | home | for historical reasons | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | switch | present · perfect | many | Ukrainian | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to ukrainian=Result |
Option 3
Everyone speaks only Russian at home, at work and at school, even today in Lviv
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 speaks | nsubj |
| 2 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 Russian | advmod |
| 4 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 speaks | xcomp |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 speaks | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 work | punct |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 work | case |
| 9 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 speaks | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 school | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 school | case |
| 12 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 work | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 today | punct |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 today | advmod |
| 15 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 work | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Lviv | case |
| 17 | Lviv | Lviv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 today | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | Everyone | home | at work and school and today in Lviv; russian property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Nobody ever did
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 did | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Nobody | ever | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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