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title: «govt shot thousands on the maidan», Danylo says. What's the respect… — The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and… · tree and pragmatics
description: «govt shot thousands on the maidan», Danylo says. What's the respectful fix? Test 3 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 3 · The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the war

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«govt shot thousands on the maidan», Danylo says. What's the respectful fix?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** govt, Danylo, respectful fix · **What happens:** shoot, say, be · **To what, where:** thousands, maidan · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «govt shot thousands on the maidan», Danylo says.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t3:1
# text = «govt shot thousands on the maidan», Danylo says.
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	govt	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
4	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	maidan	maidan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Danylo	Danylo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot** *in a quote* | past | govt | thousands |  | the maidan |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme on maidan=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Danylo |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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 respectful fix?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t3:2
# text = What's the respectful fix?
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	respectful	respectful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fix	fix	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 respectful fix |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

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

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About a hundred protesters were killed; the true number honours them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t3:o1:1
# text = About a hundred protesters were killed; the true number honours them
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	protesters	protester	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	honours	honour	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past · passive |  | hundred protesters |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **honour** | present | the true number | protesters *= protester* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nobody was hurt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t3:o2:1
# text = Nobody was hurt
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | past · passive |  | Nobody |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only police died

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t3:o3:1
# text = Only police died
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | police |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Exactly ten thousand people died in a single afternoon in the square

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t3:o4:1
# text = Exactly ten thousand people died in a single afternoon in the square
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | thousand people |  |  |  | afternoon | in the square | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in square=Attribute |

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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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