Test 9 · East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals

«shut up, the capital of Sri Lanka is Colombo, obviously» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, capital · What happens: shut up, be · To what, where: Colombo · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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 shut	punct
2	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 shut	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Colombo	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 capital	det
6	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Colombo	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Sri	case
8	Sri	Sri	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 capital	nmod
9	Lanka	Lanka	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Sri	flat
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 Colombo	cop
11	Colombo	Colombo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 shut	vocative
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 obviously	punct
13	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	2 shut	advmod
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 shut	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shut	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shut up in a quote	imperative	you not said here		obviously property	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	the capital of Sri	Colombo		tree rules
3	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 · ← Mova's choice

Colombo is the only capital and Kotte does not exist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Colombo	Colombo	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	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Kotte	cc
7	Kotte	Kotte	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 capital	conj
8	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 exist	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 exist	advmod
10	exist	exist	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 capital	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Colombo	the only capital and Kotte					tree rules
2	not exist	present · do-support							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Sri Lanka's capital is Kathmandu

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sri	Sri	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 capital	nmod:poss
2	Lanka	Lanka	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Sri	flat
3	's	's	PART	_	1 Sri	case
4	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Kathmandu	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Kathmandu	cop
6	Kathmandu	Kathmandu	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Sri's capital	Kathmandu					tree rules

Option 3

Sri Lanka's capital is Delhi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sri	Sri	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 capital	nmod:poss
2	Lanka	Lanka	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Sri	flat
3	's	's	PART	_	1 Sri	case
4	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Delhi	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Delhi	cop
6	Delhi	Delhi	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Sri's capital	Delhi					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The official capital is Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, right next to Colombo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 capital	det
2	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 capital	amod
3	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Sri	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Sri	cop
5	Sri	Sri	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	Jayawardenepura	Jayawardenepura	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Sri	flat
7	Kotte	Kotte	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Sri	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Colombo	punct
9	right	right	ADV	_	10 next	advmod
10	next	next	ADV	_	12 Colombo	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Colombo	case
12	Colombo	Colombo	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Sri	flat

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

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