Exam question 4 · The Middle East and Central Asia

Ascertain which of the following pairings of a Gulf state with its capital city is correct.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Gulf state · What happens: ascertain, follow, be, pair

This is exam question 4 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 correct	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 pairings	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pairings	det
5	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 pairings	amod
6	pairings	pairing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 which	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 state	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 state	det
9	Gulf	Gulf	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 state	compound
10	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pairings	nmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 city	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 city	nmod:poss
13	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 city	compound
14	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 state	nmod
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 correct	cop
16	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ascertain	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here		vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present		correct property	tree rules
4	pair		a Gulf state with state's capital city		nom pairing «act intransitive»: of=agent

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

Oman and Doha

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oman	oman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Doha	cc
3	Doha	Doha	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Oman	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The United Arab Emirates and Abu Dhabi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Emirates	det
2	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Emirates	amod
3	Arab	Arab	PROPN	_	4 Emirates	flat
4	Emirates	Emirates	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Abu	cc
6	Abu	Abu	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Emirates	conj
7	Dhabi	Dhabi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Abu	flat

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Qatar and Dubai

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Qatar	Qatar	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Dubai	cc
3	Dubai	Dubai	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Qatar	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Bahrain and Muscat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bahrain	bahrain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Muscat	cc
3	Muscat	muscat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bahrain	conj

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.

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