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title: If Ukrainian and Polish historians refused to talk about Volhynia, w… — Ukraine in the Second World War · tree and pragmatics
description: If Ukrainian and Polish historians refused to talk about Volhynia, what would likely happen? Test 6 of lesson 47 «Ukraine in the Second World War» 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 6 · Ukraine in the Second World War

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If Ukrainian and Polish historians refused to talk about Volhynia, what would likely happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ukrainian historians · **What happens:** refuse, not talk, happen

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This is test 6 of lesson 47 «Ukraine in the Second World War» 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/47-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:47-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war:t6:1
# text = If Ukrainian and Polish historians refused to talk about Volhynia, what would likely happen?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Polish	polish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	historians	historian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Volhynia	Volhynia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	happen	happen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | past | Ukrainian historians |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **talk** | to-infinitive | Ukrainian historians *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about Volhynia | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about volhynia=Topic |
| 3 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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Nothing, history doesn't matter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:47-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war:t6:o1:1
# text = Nothing, history doesn't matter
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	matter	matter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **matter** | present · do-support | Nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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

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Old anger would stay and the two peoples would trust each other less

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:47-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war:t6:o2:1
# text = Old anger would stay and the two peoples would trust each other less
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	10	obj	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	fixed	_	_
13	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | would | Old anger |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **trust** | would | the two peoples | each |  |  |  | less *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The past would change

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:47-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war:t6:o3:1
# text = The past would change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | would | the past |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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They would become closer friends because they had nothing left to argue about

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:47-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war:t6:o4:1
# text = They would become closer friends because they had nothing left to argue about
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	xcomp	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	obj	_	_
10	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	argue	argue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | would | They | closer friends |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | past | friends *= friend* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 3 | **leave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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