Test 8 · Africa: countries and capitals

«bloody hell, south africa's got THREE capitals?? which one's real» Which is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: south africa · What happens: get, be · To what, where: bloody hell, real best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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	_	3 hell	punct
2	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hell	amod
3	hell	hell	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hell	punct
5	south	South	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 africa	amod
6	africa	africa	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 got	aux
8	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	THREE	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 capitals	nummod
10	capitals	capital	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 got	obj
11	??	??	PUNCT	_	10 capitals	punct
12	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 answer	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 one	case
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 answer	amod
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 real	punct
17	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 answer	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 answer	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 answer	det
20	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 answer	amod
21	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	obj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	present · passive	south africa	bloody hell					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer capital=Stimulus
2	be speech: assert	present		which one's real best 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

Only Cape Town is real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 Town	advmod
2	Cape	Cape	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Town	compound
3	Town	Town	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 real	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 real	cop
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Cape Town					real property	tree rules

Option 2

Durban is the real one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Only Johannesburg is real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 Johannesburg	advmod
2	Johannesburg	Johannesburg	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 real	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 real	cop
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Johannesburg					real property	tree rules

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

All three: Pretoria for the government, Cape Town for parliament and Bloemfontein for the courts

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 three	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 Pretoria	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Pretoria	punct
4	Pretoria	Pretoria	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 government	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 government	det
7	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Pretoria	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Town	punct
9	Cape	Cape	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Town	compound
10	Town	Town	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Pretoria	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 parliament	case
12	parliament	parliament	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Town	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Bloemfontein	cc
14	Bloemfontein	Bloemfontein	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Pretoria	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 courts	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 courts	det
17	courts	court	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 Bloemfontein	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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