Test 7 · Africa: countries and capitals

What would happen if Somaliland were recognised by the United Nations?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: United Nations · What happens: happen, recognise · To what, where: Somaliland

This is test 7 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 recognised	mark
5	Somaliland	Somaliland	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 recognised	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 recognised	aux:pass
7	recognised	recognise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 Nations	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Nations	det
10	United	United	PROPN	_	11 Nations	compound
11	Nations	Nation	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 recognised	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	recognise a condition, not said to happen	past · passive	the United Nations	Somaliland					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Africa would have one more UN member country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 country	nummod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 country	amod
6	UN	UN	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 member	compound
7	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 country	compound
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj

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

Option 2

Africa would have one country fewer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 country	nummod
5	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 have	xcomp

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

Option 3

Somaliland would join South Africa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Somaliland	Somaliland	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 join	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 join	aux
3	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Africa	compound
5	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 join	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join	would	Somaliland	South Africa					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent africa=Patient

Option 4

Nothing could change, the number is fixed forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 change	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 number	det
6	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fixed	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fixed	aux:pass
8	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 change	advcl
9	forever	forever	ADV	_	8 fixed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	could	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fix	present · passive		the number				forever property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient

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