Test 10 · ★ · The Middle East and Central Asia

«kazakhstan's the biggest country with no sea right» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: kazakhstan, biggest country · What happens: be · To what, where: biggest country

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 12 «The Middle East and Central Asia» 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	_	6 country	punct
2	kazakhstan	kazakhstan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 country	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 country	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 country	det
5	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 country	amod
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 true	nsubj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 sea	case
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 country	nmod
10	right	right	ADV	_	14 true	advmod
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 right	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 a in a quote	present	kazakhstan	the biggest country				with no sea	tree rules
2	is	present	the biggest country					right, 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

No, it has a long ocean coast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 coast	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 coast	amod
7	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 coast	compound
8	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	it	a long ocean coast					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coast=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yes, it is the largest landlocked country in the world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 country	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 country	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 country	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 country	det
6	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 country	amod
7	landlocked	landlocked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 country	amod
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 country	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the largest landlocked country		the world			tree rules

Option 3

No, Switzerland is bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 bigger	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 bigger	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bigger	cop
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Switzerland					big property	tree rules

Option 4

No, Mongolia is bigger than Kazakhstan by a long, long way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 bigger	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Mongolia	Mongolia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 bigger	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bigger	cop
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 Kazakhstan	case
7	Kazakhstan	Kazakhstan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 bigger	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	13 way	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 way	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 way	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 long	punct
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 way	amod
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bigger	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Mongolia					than Kazakhstan; by a long long way; big property	tree rules

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