Test 8 · Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of th…

Why might a capital in the middle of the two main islands make sense for New Zealand?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: capital · What happens: make · To what, where: sense

This is test 8 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. 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 capital	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 capital	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 capital	det
4	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 make	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 middle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 middle	det
7	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 capital	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 islands	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 islands	det
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 islands	nummod
11	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 islands	amod
12	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 middle	nmod
13	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 make	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 Zealand	case
16	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Zealand	flat
17	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 make	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	a capital in the middle of the two main islands	sense				for New Zealand	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sense=Product for zealand=Beneficiary

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is easy to reach from both islands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 easy	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 easy	cop
3	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 reach	mark
5	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 easy	csubj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 islands	case
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	8 islands	det
8	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 reach	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						easy property	tree rules
2	reach	to-infinitive				both islands			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It is the biggest city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 city	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 city	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 city	det
4	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 city	amod
5	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the biggest city					tree rules

Option 3

It is the warmest city in the country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 city	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 city	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 city	det
4	warmest	warm	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 city	amod
5	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 country	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 country	det
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 city	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the warmest city		the country			tree rules

Option 4

It is the closest city to Australia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 city	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 city	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 city	det
4	closest	close	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 city	amod
5	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Australia	case
7	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 city	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the closest city	Australia				tree rules

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