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title: Danylo says the Maidan was about the EU and nothing else. What's the… — The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Danylo says the Maidan was about the EU and nothing else. What's the fuller story? Test 2 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 right.
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# Test 2 · The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the war

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Danylo says the Maidan was about the EU and nothing else. What's the fuller story?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Danylo, Maidan, fuller story · **What happens:** say, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Danylo says the Maidan was about the EU and nothing else.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t2:1
# text = Danylo says the Maidan was about the EU and nothing else.
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	4	det	_	_
4	Maidan	Maidan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	EU	EU	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	conj	_	_
11	else	else	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	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** | past | the Maidan |  |  |  |  | about the EU | 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:* What's the fuller story?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t2:2
# text = What's the fuller story?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	fuller	full	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the fuller story |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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It began over the EU, then grew into a fight for dignity and honest government

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t2:o1:1
# text = It began over the EU, then grew into a fight for dignity and honest government
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	EU	EU	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	dignity	dignity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | It |  |  | the EU |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **grow** | past |  |  |  | a fight | then | for dignity and honest government | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.product PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent into fight=Product for dignity=Beneficiary |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only about football

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t2:o2:1
# text = Only about football
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only about bread prices

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t2:o3:1
# text = Only about bread prices
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It was never about the EU at all, but only about the high price of bread in the shops

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t2:o4:1
# text = It was never about the EU at all, but only about the high price of bread in the shops
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	EU	EU	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | It |  |  | all |  | about the EU | 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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