Test 9 · Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations
Danylo says America's most famous Christmas song is Ukrainian. Teacher's amazed. Who's right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Danylo, famous Christmas song, America · What happens: say, be, sing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 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 America's most famous Christmas song is Ukrainian.
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 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 song | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 America | case |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 famous | advmod |
| 6 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 song | amod |
| 7 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 song | compound |
| 8 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Ukrainian | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Ukrainian | cop |
| 10 | Ukrainian | ukrainian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 says | ccomp |
| 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 | |||||
| 2 | is | present | America's famous Christmas song | ukrainian property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sing | America | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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: Teacher's amazed.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 amazed | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Teacher | case |
| 3 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 amazed | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: 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 · ✓ the right answer
Danylo: «Carol of the Bells» is based on «Shchedryk»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danylo | Danylo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 based | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 Carol | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 Carol | punct |
| 4 | Carol | Carol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Danylo | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Bells | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Bells | det |
| 7 | Bells | Bell | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 Carol | nmod |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 Carol | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 based | aux:pass |
| 10 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 Shchedryk | case |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 Shchedryk | punct |
| 13 | Shchedryk | Shchedryk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 based | obl |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 Shchedryk | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | base | present · passive | Danylo | Shchedryk | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on shchedryk=Source |
Option 2
The teacher: it's an English folk song
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 teacher | det |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 song | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 song | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 song | cop |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 song | det |
| 7 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 song | amod |
| 8 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 song | compound |
| 9 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 teacher | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a English folk song | tree rules |
Option 3
Neither: it's French
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 5 French | advmod |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 French | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 French | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 French | cop |
| 5 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | french, neither property | tree rules |
Option 4
Nobody knows where it came from
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 knows | nsubj |
| 2 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 came | advmod |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knows | ccomp |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 came | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | Nobody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | come | past | it | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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