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Test 8 · East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals

Mia asks why Thailand was never a colony while its neighbours were. Which is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mia, Thailand, neighbours · What happens: ask, not be, be · To what, where: colony, best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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

Sentence 1: Mia asks why Thailand was never a colony while its neighbours were.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asks	nsubj
2	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 colony	advmod
4	Thailand	Thailand	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 colony	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 colony	cop
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 colony	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 colony	det
8	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asks	ccomp
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 were	mark
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 neighbours	nmod:poss
11	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 were	nsubj
12	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asks	advcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Mia						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is a	past	Thailand	a colony					tree rules
3	be	past	colony's neighbours						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: Which is the best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 answer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 answer	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Thailand had no coast for ships to reach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thailand	Thailand	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 coast	det
4	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 ships	case
6	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 reach	mark
8	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Thailand	no coast				for ships	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coast=Patient
2	reach	to-infinitive	Thailand not said here						vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Thailand was too cold for Europeans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thailand	Thailand	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cold	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 cold	advmod
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 Europeans	case
6	Europeans	European	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 cold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Thailand					for Europeans; cold property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Thailand lay between British and French lands and kept its freedom by clever diplomacy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thailand	Thailand	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	between	between	ADP	_	7 lands	case
4	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lands	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 French	cc
6	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 British	conj
7	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lay	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 kept	cc
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 freedom	nmod:poss
11	freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	obj
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 diplomacy	case
13	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 diplomacy	amod
14	diplomacy	diplomacy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	Thailand			British lands			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between land=Location
2	keep	past	Thailand not said here	its freedom				by clever diplomacy	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent freedom=Theme by diplomacy=Location

Option 4

Thailand was already part of Britain, so France could not take it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thailand	Thailand	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 part	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 part	cop
3	already	already	ADV	_	4 part	advmod
4	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Britain	case
6	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 part	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 take	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 take	advmod
9	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 take	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 take	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 take	advmod
12	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 part	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Thailand	part				of Britain	tree rules
2	not take	could	France	part					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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