Test 2 · Africa: countries and capitals

«capital of nigeria's lagos, everyone knows» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: capital · What happens: know, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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	_	2 capital	punct
2	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knows	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 lagos	case
4	nigeria	Nigeria	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lagos	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 nigeria	case
6	lagos	lagos	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 capital	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 capital	punct
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 knows	nsubj
9	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 knows	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	9 knows	ccomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 knows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	capital of nigeria's lagos						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present						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

Lagos has always been the capital, since the British first came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lagos	Lagos	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 been	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 been	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 been	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 came	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 capital	det
6	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 been	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
8	since	since	SCONJ	_	12 came	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 British	det
10	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 came	nsubj
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 came	advmod
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	participle	the British					come, first property	tree rules

Option 2

The capital is Kano, the old trading city of the north

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 Kano	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Kano	cop
4	Kano	Kano	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 city	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 city	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 city	amod
8	trading	trading	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 city	compound
9	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Kano	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 north	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 north	det
12	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 city	nmod

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

Option 3

Nigeria has three capitals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nigeria	Nigeria	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 capitals	nummod
4	capitals	capital	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Nigeria	three capitals					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capital=Patient

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

Lagos is the biggest city, but the capital moved to Abuja in 1991

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lagos	Lagos	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 city	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 city	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 city	det
4	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 city	amod
5	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 moved	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 moved	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 capital	det
9	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 moved	nsubj
10	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 city	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Abuja	case
12	Abuja	Abuja	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 moved	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 1991	case
14	1991	1991	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 moved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Lagos	the biggest city					tree rules
2	move	past	the capital		Abuja	1991			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to abuja=Source in 1991=Trajectory

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