Exam question 4 · East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals
State the national capital which records the lowest average annual temperature of all national capitals.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: national capital · What happens: record · To what, where: lowest average annual temperature
This is exam question 4 of lesson 11 «East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals» 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 | State | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 capital | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 capital | det |
| 3 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 capital | amod |
| 4 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 records | nsubj |
| 6 | records | record | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 capital | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 temperature | det |
| 8 | lowest | low | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 temperature | amod |
| 9 | average | average | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 temperature | amod |
| 10 | annual | annual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 temperature | amod |
| 11 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 records | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 capitals | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 capitals | det |
| 14 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 capitals | amod |
| 15 | capitals | capital | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 temperature | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 capital | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | record | present | the national capital | the lowest average annual temperature of all national capitals | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temperature=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 · ← Mova's choice
Ottawa
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ottawa | Ottawa | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Helsinki
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Helsinki | Helsinki | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Moscow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moscow | Moscow | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Ulaanbaatar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ulaanbaatar | Ulaanbaatar | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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