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title: Danylo says Russia grabbed Crimea in one night. What's more exact? — The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Danylo says Russia grabbed Crimea in one night. What's more exact? Test 4 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 wrong.
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# Test 4 · The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the war

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Danylo says Russia grabbed Crimea in one night. What's more exact?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Danylo, Russia · **What happens:** say, grab, be · **To what, where:** Crimea · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Danylo says Russia grabbed Crimea in one night.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t4:1
# text = Danylo says Russia grabbed Crimea in one night.
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	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grabbed	grab	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	Crimea	Crimea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	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 clause=Topic |
| 2 | **grab** | past | Russia | Crimea |  |  | night |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crimea=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What's more exact?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t4:2
# text = What's more exact?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | exact *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It took a hundred years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t4:o1:1
# text = It took a hundred years
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | It |  |  |  | year |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Crimea voted freely and fairly with UN observers watching every polling station

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t4:o2:1
# text = Crimea voted freely and fairly with UN observers watching every polling station
1	Crimea	Crimea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	voted	vote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	freely	freely	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	UN	UN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	observers	observer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
11	polling	polling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vote** | past | Crimea |  |  |  |  | with UN observers; freely *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **watch** | gerund | UN observers *not said here* | every polling station |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent station=Theme |

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

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It took weeks, with unmarked Russian soldiers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t4:o3:1
# text = It took weeks, with unmarked Russian soldiers
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	unmarked	unmarked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | It |  |  |  | week |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Crimea was never taken

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t4:o4:1
# text = Crimea was never taken
1	Crimea	Crimea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	taken	take	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 | **not** **take** | past · passive |  | Crimea |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |

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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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