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title: Danylo says nobody ever spoke Russian in Ukraine. What's the honest… — Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerat… · tree and pragmatics
description: Danylo says nobody ever spoke Russian in Ukraine. What's the honest picture? Test 10 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 was right.
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# Test 10 · Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations

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Danylo says nobody ever spoke Russian in Ukraine. What's the honest picture?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Danylo, nobody, honest picture · **What happens:** say, speak, be · **To what, where:** Russian, Ukraine · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Danylo says nobody ever spoke Russian in Ukraine.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations:t10:1
# text = Danylo says nobody ever spoke Russian in Ukraine.
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	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	Russian	Russian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	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 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | nobody | Russian |  | Ukraine | ever |  | 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 the honest picture?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations:t10:2
# text = What's the honest picture?
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	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	picture	picture	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 honest picture |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Ukrainian is not a state language

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations:t10:o1:1
# text = Ukrainian is not a state language
1	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | Ukrainian | a state language |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Many did at home for historical reasons, and many have switched to Ukrainian

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations:t10:o2:1
# text = Many did at home for historical reasons, and many have switched to Ukrainian
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	switched	switch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Many |  |  | home |  | for historical reasons | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **switch** | present · perfect | many |  | Ukrainian |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to ukrainian=Result |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Everyone speaks only Russian at home, at work and at school, even today in Lviv

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations:t10:o3:1
# text = Everyone speaks only Russian at home, at work and at school, even today in Lviv
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	speaks	speak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Lviv	Lviv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | Everyone |  |  | home |  | at work and school and today in Lviv; russian *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nobody ever did

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:50-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations:t10:o4:1
# text = Nobody ever did
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|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 | **do** | past | Nobody |  |  |  | ever |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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