Test 3 · ★ · The Middle East and Central Asia

A friend thinks Iran and Iraq are the same country spelled two ways. What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, Iran, same country · What happens: think, be, spell · To what, where: same country, two ways · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A friend thinks Iran and Iraq are the same country spelled two ways.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thinks	nsubj
3	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Iran	Iran	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 country	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Iraq	cc
6	Iraq	Iraq	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Iran	conj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 country	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 country	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 country	amod
10	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thinks	ccomp
11	spelled	spell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 country	acl
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 ways	nummod
13	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 spelled	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thinks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	a friend		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	Iran and Iraq	the same country	tree rules
3	spell	participle	the same country not said here	two ways	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent way=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: What is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Iraq is the old name of Iran, used before the country changed its name in the 1930s

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Iraq	Iraq	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 name	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 name	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 name	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 name	amod
5	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Iran	case
7	Iran	Iran	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 name	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 used	punct
9	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 name	conj
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 changed	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 country	det
12	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 changed	nsubj
13	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 used	advcl
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 name	nmod:poss
15	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 changed	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 1930s	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 1930s	det
18	1930s	1930	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	13 changed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Iraq	the old name		of Iran	tree rules
2	use	participle	Iraq not said here				vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	change	past	the country	country's name	the 1930s		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient
4	name		country				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They are one country with two names

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 country	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 country	cop
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 country	nummod
4	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 names	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 names	nummod
7	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 country	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	one country				with two names	tree rules

Option 3

Iran is a city in Iraq

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Iran	Iran	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 city	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 city	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 city	det
4	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Iraq	case
6	Iraq	Iraq	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 city	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Iran	a city		Iraq			tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They are two different countries: Iran's capital is Tehran and Iraq's is Baghdad

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 countries	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 countries	cop
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 countries	nummod
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 countries	amod
5	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 Tehran	punct
7	Iran	Iran	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 capital	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Iran	case
9	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Tehran	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 Tehran	cop
11	Tehran	Tehran	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 countries	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Baghdad	cc
13	Iraq	Iraq	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Baghdad	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Iraq	case
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Baghdad	cop
16	Baghdad	Baghdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Tehran	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	They	two different countries	tree rules
2	is a	present	Iran's capital	Tehran and Iraq's Baghdad	tree rules
3	is a	present	Iran's capital not said here	Iraq's Baghdad	tree rules

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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