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title: Danylo says Ukraine's the biggest country in Europe, teacher says Ru… — Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerat… · tree and pragmatics
description: Danylo says Ukraine's the biggest country in Europe, teacher says Russia's bigger. Who's right? Test 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 each option; Mova's choice w
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# Test 1 · Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations

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Danylo says Ukraine's the biggest country in Europe, teacher says Russia's bigger. Who's right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Danylo, teacher · **What happens:** say, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 of lesson 50 «Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations» 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/50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Danylo says Ukraine's the biggest country in Europe, teacher says Russia's bigger.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations:t1:1
# text = Danylo says Ukraine's the biggest country in Europe, teacher says Russia's bigger.
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	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | teacher |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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:* Who's right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations:t1:2
# text = Who's right?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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 |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Only the teacher

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations:t1:o1:1
# text = Only the teacher
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Neither, France is bigger than both of them once you add in all its overseas lands

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations:t1:o2:1
# text = Neither, France is bigger than both of them once you add in all its overseas lands
1	Neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
10	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	add	add	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	overseas	overseas	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | France |  |  |  |  | than both; big, neither *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | you |  |  | its overseas lands |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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

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Both, depending on the definition: Ukraine is the largest wholly in Europe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations:t1:o3:1
# text = Both, depending on the definition: Ukraine is the largest wholly in Europe
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	depending	depend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	definition	definition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
12	wholly	wholly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **depend** | gerund | Both |  |  |  |  | on the definition | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on definition=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Ukraine |  |  | Europe |  | large, wholly *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only Danylo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations:t1:o4:1
# text = Only Danylo
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	Danylo	Danylo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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