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title: «300 kids stopped the entire Bolshevik army at Kruty, end of story»… — The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodo… · tree and pragmatics
description: «300 kids stopped the entire Bolshevik army at Kruty, end of story» — fix it. Test 3 of lesson 46 «The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor» 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 3 · The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor

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«300 kids stopped the entire Bolshevik army at Kruty, end of story» — fix it.

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** 300 kids · **What happens:** stop, fix · **To what, where:** entire Bolshevik army, Kruty, army

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This is test 3 of lesson 46 «The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor» 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/46-the-struggle-of-1917-21-and-the-holodomor/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:46-the-struggle-of-1917-21-and-the-holodomor:t3:1
# text = «300 kids stopped the entire Bolshevik army at Kruty, end of story» — fix it.
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	300	300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Bolshevik	Bolshevik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Kruty	Kruty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
16	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** *in a quote* | past | 300 kids | the entire Bolshevik army |  | Kruty |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector army=Eventuality |
| 2 | **fix** | infinitive | 300 kids *not said here* | army |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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 {#o1}

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They destroyed the whole army, and the Bolsheviks never came back to Ukraine again

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:46-the-struggle-of-1917-21-and-the-holodomor:t3:o1:1
# text = They destroyed the whole army, and the Bolsheviks never came back to Ukraine again
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Bolsheviks	bolshevik	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **destroy** | past | They | the whole army |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **come back** | past | the Bolsheviks |  |  | Ukraine | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ukraine=Initial\_Location |

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

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A few hundred fought bravely, delayed the advance briefly, and many died

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:46-the-struggle-of-1917-21-and-the-holodomor:t3:o2:1
# text = A few hundred fought bravely, delayed the advance briefly, and many died
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	bravely	bravely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	delayed	delay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	advance	advance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	briefly	briefly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nsubj	_	_
14	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | past | a few hundred |  |  |  |  | bravely *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **delay** | past | a few hundred *not said here* | the advance |  |  |  | briefly *property* | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent advance=Source |
| 3 | **die** | past | many |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Nobody fought at Kruty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:46-the-struggle-of-1917-21-and-the-holodomor:t3:o3:1
# text = Nobody fought at Kruty
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Kruty	Kruty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | past | Nobody |  |  | Kruty |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Kruty was in France

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:46-the-struggle-of-1917-21-and-the-holodomor:t3:o4:1
# text = Kruty was in France
1	Kruty	Kruty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Kruty |  |  | France |  |  | 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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