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Test 1 · Africa: countries and capitals

Tom says: «Africa's basically one big country, isn't it?» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tom, Africa, one big country · What happens: say, be, not be · To what, where: one big country, country · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 13 «Africa: countries and capitals» 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: Tom says: «Africa's basically one big country, isn't it?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 country	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 country	punct
5	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 country	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 country	cop
7	basically	basically	ADV	_	10 country	advmod
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 country	nummod
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 country	amod
10	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 it	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 country	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 it	cop
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 it	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	ccomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	Tom						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	Africa	one big country				basically property	tree rules
3	not is a in a quote	present	one big country	country					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.

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 · ✓ the right answer

Africa is a continent with 54 UN member countries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 continent	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 continent	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 continent	det
4	continent	continent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	9 countries	case
6	54	54	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 countries	nummod
7	UN	UN	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 member	compound
8	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 countries	compound
9	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 continent	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Africa	a continent				with 54 member countries	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Africa is one country with 54 provinces and one president

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 country	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing 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 provinces	case
6	54	54	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 provinces	nummod
7	provinces	province	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 country	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 president	cc
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 president	nummod
10	president	president	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 provinces	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Africa	one country				with 54 provinces and one president	tree rules

Option 3

Africa is part of Asia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 part	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 part	cop
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Asia	case
5	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 part	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Africa	part				of Asia	tree rules

Option 4

Africa has only about 10 countries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 10	advmod
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 10	advmod
5	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 countries	nummod
6	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Africa	10 countries					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Patient

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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