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title: Teacher: «Ukraine was Russia till 1991». Danylo: «Ukraine was always… — The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate · tree and pragmatics
description: Teacher: «Ukraine was Russia till 1991». Danylo: «Ukraine was always free». Fair answer? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 44 «The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was r
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# Test 10 · ★ · The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate

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Teacher: «Ukraine was Russia till 1991». Danylo: «Ukraine was always free». Fair answer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ukraine · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Ukraine Russia

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 44 «The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/44-the-cossacks-the-sich-and-the-hetmanate/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Teacher: «Ukraine was Russia till 1991».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:44-the-cossacks-the-sich-and-the-hetmanate:t10:1
# text = Teacher: «Ukraine was Russia till 1991».
1	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	till	till	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1991	1991	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past |  | Ukraine Russia |  |  | till 1991 |  | 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:* Danylo: «Ukraine was always free».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:44-the-cossacks-the-sich-and-the-hetmanate:t10:2
# text = Danylo: «Ukraine was always free».
1	Danylo	Danylo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Ukraine	Ukraine	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	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Ukraine |  |  |  |  | always, free *property* | tree rules |

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*Sentence 3:* Fair answer?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:44-the-cossacks-the-sich-and-the-hetmanate:t10:3
# text = Fair answer?
1	Fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	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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The teacher's fully right

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:44-the-cossacks-the-sich-and-the-hetmanate:t10:o1:1
# text = The teacher's fully right
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Danylo's fully right

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:44-the-cossacks-the-sich-and-the-hetmanate:t10:o2:1
# text = Danylo's fully right
1	Danylo	Danylo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Both are right at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:44-the-cossacks-the-sich-and-the-hetmanate:t10:o3:1
# text = Both are right at once
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Both |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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

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Neither: Ukrainian lands were long ruled by empires but kept their own culture

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:44-the-cossacks-the-sich-and-the-hetmanate:t10:o4:1
# text = Neither: Ukrainian lands were long ruled by empires but kept their own culture
1	Neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
3	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	ruled	rule	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	empires	empire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | past · passive | empires | Neither |  |  |  | long *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | past | empires *not said here* | lands's own culture |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent culture=Theme |

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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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