Test 6 · Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations
Danylo says nobody else is allowed to make borscht now. What's true?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Danylo, nobody · What happens: say, allow, make, be · To what, where: nobody, borscht · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 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 else is allowed to make borscht now.
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 | 6 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | else | else | ADV | _ | 3 nobody | advmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 allowed | aux:pass |
| 6 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 says | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 make | mark |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 allowed | xcomp |
| 9 | borscht | borscht | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 make | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | 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 | allow | present · passive | nobody | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | nobody not said here | borscht | now | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset borscht=Product |
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 true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
UNESCO banned borscht
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UNESCO | unesco | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | banned | ban | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 borscht | amod |
| 3 | borscht | borscht | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 UNESCO | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ban | participle | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer |
Option 2
Borscht was invented in Italy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Borscht | Borscht | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 invented | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 invented | aux:pass |
| 3 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Italy | case |
| 5 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 invented | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invent | past · passive | Borscht | Italy | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
UNESCO protects a tradition; anyone may still cook it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UNESCO | unesco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 protects | nsubj |
| 2 | protects | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tradition | det |
| 4 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 protects | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 cook | punct |
| 6 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 cook | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 cook | aux |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 cook | advmod |
| 9 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 protects | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cook | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect | present | UNESCO | a tradition | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tradition=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | cook | may | anyone | tradition | still | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Making borscht abroad is a crime
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 crime | csubj |
| 2 | borscht | borscht | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Making | obj |
| 3 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 1 Making | advmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 crime | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 crime | det |
| 6 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | borscht | abroad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset borscht=Product | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Making | a crime | tree rules |
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