Test 4 · East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals

«mongolia's tiny innit, like a little country» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tiny innit · What happens: be

This is test 4 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	_	5 innit	punct
2	mongolia	mongolia	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 innit	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 mongolia	case
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 innit	amod
5	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 true	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 country	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 country	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 country	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 country	amod
10	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 innit	appos
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 country	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 true	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 true	cop
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	mongolia's tiny innit					true 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 · ← Mova's choice

Mongolia is a small island in the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mongolia	Mongolia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 island	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 island	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 island	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 island	amod
5	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 island	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Mongolia	a small island		the sea			tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Mongolia is huge in area but has only about 3.5 million people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mongolia	Mongolia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 huge	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 huge	cop
3	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 area	case
5	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 huge	obl
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 has	cc
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 huge	conj
8	only	only	ADV	_	11 million	advmod
9	about	about	ADV	_	11 million	advmod
10	3.5	3.5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 million	compound
11	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 people	nummod
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Mongolia			area		huge property	tree rules
2	have	present	Mongolia not said here	million people					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

Option 3

Mongolia is tiny in area and very crowded, a bit like Singapore or Malta

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mongolia	Mongolia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tiny	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tiny	cop
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 area	case
5	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tiny	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 crowded	cc
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 crowded	advmod
8	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tiny	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bit	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bit	det
11	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tiny	conj
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 Singapore	case
13	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 bit	nmod
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 Malta	cc
15	Malta	Malta	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Singapore	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Mongolia			area		tiny property	tree rules
2	be		Mongolia not said here						tree rules

Option 4

Mongolia is part of Russia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mongolia	Mongolia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 part	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 part	cop
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Russia	case
5	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 part	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Mongolia	part				of Russia	tree rules

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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