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title: «donbas rebels were ALL russian soldiers lol». What's fairer? — The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and… · tree and pragmatics
description: «donbas rebels were ALL russian soldiers lol». What's fairer? Test 5 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 5 · The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the war

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«donbas rebels were ALL russian soldiers lol». What's fairer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** donbas rebels · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** russian soldiers

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This is test 5 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «donbas rebels were ALL russian soldiers lol».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t5:1
# text = «donbas rebels were ALL russian soldiers lol».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	donbas	donbas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	rebels	rebel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	ALL	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | donbas rebels | russian soldiers |  |  |  | all *property* | 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 fairer?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t5:2
# text = What's fairer?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fairer	fair	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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All of them were Ukrainian army

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t5:o1:1
# text = All of them were Ukrainian army
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | All | Ukrainian army |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

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A Russian-backed war with both local and Russian fighters

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t5:o2:1
# text = A Russian-backed war with both local and Russian fighters
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	backed	back	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc:preconj	_	_
8	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	fighters	fighter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **back** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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All of them were tourists

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t5:o3:1
# text = All of them were tourists
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	tourists	tourist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | All | tourists |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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There was no fighting in Donbas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t5:o4:1
# text = There was no fighting in Donbas
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	fighting	fighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Donbas	Donbas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | no fighting in Donbas |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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