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title: What would happen to Cossack traditions if the Sich was destroyed? — The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to Cossack traditions if the Sich was destroyed? Test 9 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 9 · ★ · The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate

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What would happen to Cossack traditions if the Sich was destroyed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** happen, destroy · **To what, where:** Sich

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:44-the-cossacks-the-sich-and-the-hetmanate:t9:1
# text = What would happen to Cossack traditions if the Sich was destroyed?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Cossack	cossack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Sich	Sich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | to Cossack traditions | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **destroy** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | the Sich |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The Cossacks became Swedes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:44-the-cossacks-the-sich-and-the-hetmanate:t9:o1:1
# text = The Cossacks became Swedes
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Cossacks	Cossack	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Swedes	swede	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the Cossacks | Swedes |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The Sich ended, but songs, dances and memory lived on elsewhere

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:44-the-cossacks-the-sich-and-the-hetmanate:t9:o2:1
# text = The Sich ended, but songs, dances and memory lived on elsewhere
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sich	Sich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
6	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	dances	dance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | past | the Sich |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **live** | past | songs and dances and memory |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on elsewhere=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing, the Sich went on as before

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:44-the-cossacks-the-sich-and-the-hetmanate:t9:o3:1
# text = Nothing, the Sich went on as before
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Sich	Sich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	before	before	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past | the Sich |  |  |  |  | Nothing *vocative*; before *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Every Cossack tradition vanished that day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:44-the-cossacks-the-sich-and-the-hetmanate:t9:o4:1
# text = Every Cossack tradition vanished that day
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	Cossack	cossack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vanish** | past | every Cossack tradition |  |  |  | day |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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