Test 12 · Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations
Danylo says Ukraine's already in the EU. What's the exact phrase?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Danylo, exact phrase · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 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 already in the EU.
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 | 8 EU | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Ukraine | case |
| 5 | already | already | ADV | _ | 8 EU | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 EU | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 EU | det |
| 8 | EU | EU | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | ccomp |
| 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 |
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 exact phrase?
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 phrase | det |
| 4 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 phrase | amod |
| 5 | phrase | phrase | 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 exact phrase | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It founded the EU
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 founded | nsubj |
| 2 | founded | found | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 EU | det |
| 4 | EU | EU | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 founded | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found | past | It | the EU | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eu=Patient |
Option 2
It was refused for ever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 refused | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 refused | aux:pass |
| 3 | refused | refuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 ever | case |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 refused | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past · passive | It | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A candidate on the way, with talks opened in 2024
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 candidate | det |
| 2 | candidate | candidate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 way | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 candidate | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 talks | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 talks | case |
| 8 | talks | talk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 candidate | conj |
| 9 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 talks | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 2024 | case |
| 11 | 2024 | 2024 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 opened | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | participle | talks not said here | 2024 | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2024=Location |
Option 4
A member since 1991
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 member | det |
| 2 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | since | since | ADP | _ | 4 1991 | case |
| 4 | 1991 | 1991 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 member | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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.
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