Test 10 · Africa: countries and capitals

«the capital of ivory coast is abidjan obviously» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: capital, abidjan · What happens: be · To what, where: abidjan

This is test 10 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 abidjan	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 capital	det
3	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 abidjan	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 coast	case
5	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coast	compound
6	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 capital	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 abidjan	cop
8	abidjan	abidjan	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 right	nsubj
9	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	8 abidjan	advmod
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 abidjan	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 right	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 right	cop
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	the capital of ivory coast	abidjan				obviously property	tree rules
2	is	present	abidjan					right 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

Abidjan is the only capital

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Abidjan	Abidjan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 capital	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 capital	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 capital	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 capital	amod
5	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The capital is Dakar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 capital	det
2	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Dakar	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Dakar	cop
4	Dakar	Dakar	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

It has no capital

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 capital	det
4	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	no capital					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capital=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The official capital is Yamoussoukro, though much government work stays in Abidjan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 capital	det
2	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 capital	amod
3	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Yamoussoukro	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Yamoussoukro	cop
5	Yamoussoukro	Yamoussoukro	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stays	punct
7	though	though	SCONJ	_	11 stays	mark
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 work	amod
9	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 work	compound
10	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stays	nsubj
11	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Yamoussoukro	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 Abidjan	case
13	Abidjan	Abidjan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 stays	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the official capital	Yamoussoukro					tree rules
2	stay	present	much government work	Yamoussoukro not said here		Abidjan			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme yamoussoukro=Location

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