Exam question 1 · The Middle East and Central Asia
Identify the city which has served as the capital of the Republic of Turkey since the year 1923.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, serve · To what, where: city
This is exam question 1 of lesson 12 «The Middle East and Central Asia» 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 city | det |
| 3 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 served | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 served | aux |
| 6 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 city | acl:relcl |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 capital | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 capital | det |
| 9 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 served | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Republic | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Republic | det |
| 12 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 capital | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Turkey | case |
| 14 | Turkey | Turkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Republic | nmod |
| 15 | since | since | ADP | _ | 17 year | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 year | det |
| 17 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 served | obl |
| 18 | 1923 | 1923 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 year | flat |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the city | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent city=Theme | ||||
| 2 | serve | present · perfect · passive | the city | year | as the capital of the Republic of Turkey | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as capital=Attribute |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Ankara
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ankara | ankara | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Izmir
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Izmir | Izmir | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Istanbul
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Istanbul | Istanbul | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Bursa
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bursa | Bursa | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/12-middle-east-and-central-asia/e1/