Test 2 · East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals

«capital of Malaysia?? its putrajaya innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: capital · What happens: ??, be · To what, where: putrajaya innit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 of lesson 11 «East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 capital	punct
2	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ??	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Malaysia	case
4	Malaysia	Malaysia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 capital	nmod
5	??	??	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 innit	nmod:poss
7	putrajaya	putrajaya	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 innit	amod
8	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ??	obj
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 ??	punct
10	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 right	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 right	cop
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ??	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 ??	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	?? in a quote	present	capital of Malaysia	capital's putrajaya innit					tree rules
2	is	present						right property	tree rules

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

Putrajaya is the only capital, and Kuala Lumpur is just a small village by the river

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Putrajaya	Putrajaya	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 capital	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 capital	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 capital	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 capital	amod
5	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 village	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 village	cc
8	Kuala	Kuala	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Lumpur	compound
9	Lumpur	Lumpur	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 village	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 village	cop
11	just	just	ADV	_	14 village	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 village	det
13	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 village	amod
14	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 capital	appos
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 river	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 river	det
17	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 village	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Putrajaya	the only capital					tree rules
2	is a	present	Kuala Lumpur	a small village				by the river	tree rules

Option 2

The capital is Jakarta

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 capital	det
2	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Jakarta	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Jakarta	cop
4	Jakarta	Jakarta	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The capital is Singapore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 capital	det
2	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Singapore	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Singapore	cop
4	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The capital is Kuala Lumpur, though much of the government works in Putrajaya

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 capital	det
2	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Kuala	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Kuala	cop
4	Kuala	Kuala	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	Lumpur	Lumpur	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Kuala	flat
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 works	punct
7	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 works	mark
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 works	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 government	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 government	det
11	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 much	nmod
12	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Kuala	parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Putrajaya	case
14	Putrajaya	Putrajaya	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 works	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the capital	Kuala					tree rules
2	work	present	much of the government					in Putrajaya	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in putrajaya=Theme

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