Test 8 · ★ · The Middle East and Central Asia

«Jerusalem is Israel's capital, full stop, no argument» What is the fairest answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jerusalem, argument · What happens: be · To what, where: capital, fairest answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	_	2 Jerusalem	punct
2	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 capital	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 capital	cop
4	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 capital	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Israel	case
6	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stop	punct
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stop	amod
9	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 capital	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 argument	punct
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 argument	det
12	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 capital	parataxis
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 argument	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 answer	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 answer	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 answer	det
17	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 answer	amod
18	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 argument	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 capital	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Jerusalem	Israel's capital and full stop					tree rules
2	be speech: assert	present	no argument and the fairest answer	the fairest answer					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

Jerusalem is the capital of Jordan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 capital	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 capital	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 capital	det
4	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Jordan	case
6	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 capital	nmod

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

Option 2

The United Nations made Tel Aviv the only capital in 1948, and nobody has argued about it since

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Nations	det
2	United	United	PROPN	_	3 Nations	compound
3	Nations	Nation	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Tel	Tel	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
6	Aviv	Aviv	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Tel	flat
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 capital	det
8	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 capital	amod
9	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 1948	case
11	1948	1948	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 made	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 argued	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 argued	cc
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 argued	nsubj:pass
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 argued	aux
16	argued	argue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 made	conj
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 argued	obl
19	since	since	ADP	_	16 argued	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the United Nations	Tel		1948			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tel=Product
2	argue speech: disagree	present · perfect · passive		nobody				about capital	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nobody claims Jerusalem as a capital

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 claims	nsubj
2	claims	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 claims	obj
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 capital	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 capital	det
6	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 claims	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	claim speech: other	present	Nobody	Jerusalem				as a capital	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent jerusalem=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Israel calls it its capital, but its status is disputed and most embassies are in Tel Aviv

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 calls	nsubj
2	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 calls	obj
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 capital	nmod:poss
5	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 calls	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 disputed	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 disputed	cc
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 status	nmod:poss
9	status	status	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 disputed	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 disputed	aux:pass
11	disputed	dispute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 calls	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Tel	cc
13	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 embassies	amod
14	embassies	embassy	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 Tel	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 Tel	cop
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 Tel	case
17	Tel	Tel	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 disputed	conj
18	Aviv	Aviv	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Tel	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	call speech: assert	present	Israel	it		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	dispute	present · passive		capital's status		tree rules
3	is	present	most embassies		Tel	tree rules

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