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title: My brother says Russia was always huge. Wrong? — Muscovy, England and France: how the b… · tree and pragmatics
description: My brother says Russia was always huge. Wrong? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 34 «Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 2 · ★ · Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
My brother says Russia was always huge. Wrong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** brother, Russia · **What happens:** say, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 34 «Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew» of the geography 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* My brother says Russia was always huge.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:t2:1
# text = My brother says Russia was always huge.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | My brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | Russia |  |  |  |  | always, huge *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Wrong?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:t2:2
# text = Wrong?
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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No, Russia has always reached the Pacific, even in 1337

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:t2:o1:1
# text = No, Russia has always reached the Pacific, even in 1337
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1337	1337	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | present · perfect | Russia | the Pacific |  | 1337 |  | always *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent pacific=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, Moscow ruled over the whole Golden Horde in 1337 and beyond

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:t2:o2:1
# text = No, Moscow ruled over the whole Golden Horde in 1337 and beyond
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Moscow	Moscow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Horde	Horde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1337	1337	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	beyond	beyond	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | past | Moscow |  |  | the whole Golden Horde |  | in 1337 | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, Russia was part of France then

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:t2:o3:1
# text = Yes, Russia was part of France then
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Russia | part |  |  | then | of France | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, in 1337 Moscow was a small principality under the Horde

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:t2:o4:1
# text = Yes, in 1337 Moscow was a small principality under the Horde
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	1337	1337	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
5	Moscow	Moscow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	principality	principality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
10	under	under	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Horde	horde	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Moscow | a small principality |  | the Horde |  |  | tree rules |

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**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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