Exam question 1 · Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of th…
Identify the second most extensive sovereign state in the world.
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify · To what, where: second extensive sovereign state, world
This is exam question 1 of lesson 10 «Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world» of the geography 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.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 state | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 state | amod |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 extensive | advmod |
| 5 | extensive | extensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 state | amod |
| 6 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 state | compound |
| 7 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 state | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the second extensive sovereign state | the world | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent state=Theme |
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
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Canada
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
The United States of America
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 States | det |
| 2 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 States | amod |
| 3 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 America | case |
| 5 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 States | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Australia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The People's Republic of China
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 People | det |
| 2 | People | People | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 Republic | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 People | case |
| 4 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 China | case |
| 6 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Republic | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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