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description: Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the territorial extent of Ukraine within Europe? Exam question 1 of lesson 50 «Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Exam question 1 · Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the territorial extent of Ukraine within Europe?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** follow, characteris, extend · **To what, where:** territorial extent, Ukraine

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 50 «Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations» of the history course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations:e1:1
# text = Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the territorial extent of Ukraine within Europe?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	statements	statement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	territorial	territorial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	within	within	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **characteris** | present |  | the territorial extent of Ukraine |  |  |  | of the following statements; within Europe; accurately *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **extend** |  |  | Ukraine |  |  |  | within Europe | nom extent «state transitive»: of=patient within=obl |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It is smaller than Belgium

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations:e1:o1:1
# text = It is smaller than Belgium
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Belgium	Belgium	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | than Belgium; small *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It is exceeded in area within Europe by both France and Spain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations:e1:o2:1
# text = It is exceeded in area within Europe by both France and Spain
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	exceeded	exceed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	within	within	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc:preconj	_	_
10	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exceed** | present · passive | France and Spain | It |  |  |  | within Europe; in area | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme in area=Attribute |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It is the largest state in the world

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations:e1:o3:1
# text = It is the largest state in the world
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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It is the largest state situated wholly within the European continent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations:e1:o4:1
# text = It is the largest state situated wholly within the European continent
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	situated	situate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	wholly	wholly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	within	within	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	continent	continent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | the largest state |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **situate** | participle |  | the largest state *not said here* |  |  |  | within the European continent; wholly *property* | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent |

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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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