Test 5 · Ukraine: refugees, aid, sanctions and children's lives

What would a big company that obeys new sanctions on Russia probably do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big company · What happens: obey, do · To what, where: new sanctions, Russia

This is test 5 of lesson 25 «Ukraine: refugees, aid, sanctions and children's lives» of the politics 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 company	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 company	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 company	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 company	amod
5	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 obeys	nsubj
7	obeys	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 company	acl:relcl
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sanctions	amod
9	sanctions	sanction	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 obeys	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 Russia	case
11	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 obeys	obl
12	probably	probably	ADV	_	13 do	advmod
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 obeys	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 company	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obey	present	a big company	new sanctions		Russia			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sanction=Theme
2	do	infinitive	a big company not said here					probably property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Open twice as many shops in Russia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Open	advmod
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shops	amod
5	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Open	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Russia	case
7	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Open	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	imperative	you not said here	many shops		Russia		twice property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent shop=Theme in russia=Location

Option 2

Pay Russia double

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Pay	obj
3	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Pay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	imperative	you not said here		Russia				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent russia=Recipient double=Asset

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Stop trading there, like McDonald's did in 2022

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	trading	trade	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Stop	xcomp
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 trading	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 did	punct
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	8 did	mark
6	McDonald	McDonald	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 did	nsubj
7	's	's	PART	_	6 McDonald	case
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	parataxis
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 2022	case
10	2022	2022	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 did	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	trade	gerund	you not said here	there	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	do	past	McDonald	2022	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Become the boss of Russia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Become	become	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boss	det
3	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Become	xcomp
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Russia	case
5	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 boss	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	imperative	you not said here	the boss of Russia					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/25-ukraine-refugees-aid-sanctions-and-childrens-lives/t5/