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title: Danylo says the Orange Revolution was the biggest protest on Earth.… — The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Danylo says the Orange Revolution was the biggest protest on Earth. Better way to put it? Test 1 of lesson 49 «The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the 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 
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# Test 1 · The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the war

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Danylo says the Orange Revolution was the biggest protest on Earth. Better way to put it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Danylo, Orange Revolution · **What happens:** say, be, put · **To what, where:** biggest protest, Earth, Better way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 of lesson 49 «The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the 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/49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Danylo says the Orange Revolution was the biggest protest on Earth.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t1:1
# text = Danylo says the Orange Revolution was the biggest protest on Earth.
1	Danylo	Danylo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Orange	Orange	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Revolution	Revolution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	protest	protest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Danylo |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the Orange Revolution | the biggest protest |  | Earth |  |  | 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:* Better way to put it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t1:2
# text = Better way to put it?
1	Better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | to-infinitive |  | Better way |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent way=Asset it=Goal |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A protest that changed nothing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t1:o1:1
# text = A protest that changed nothing
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	protest	protest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past | a protest | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The biggest war in history, with millions of soldiers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t1:o2:1
# text = The biggest war in history, with millions of soldiers
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A big, peaceful protest that won a fair re-vote

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t1:o3:1
# text = A big, peaceful protest that won a fair re-vote
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	protest	protest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	re-vote	re-vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past | a big peaceful protest | a fair re-vote |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent re-vote=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A tiny protest of ten people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t1:o4:1
# text = A tiny protest of ten people
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	protest	protest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **protest** |  |  | ten people |  |  |  |  | nom protest «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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