Test 9 · ★★ · Latin America and the Caribbean

«bolivia's capital is sucre — no wait, la paz? which» Which is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: capital, sucre · What happens: be · To what, where: sucre, best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 14 «Latin America and the Caribbean» 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	_	6 sucre	punct
2	bolivia	bolivia	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 capital	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bolivia	case
4	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sucre	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sucre	cop
6	sucre	sucre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	9 wait	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 wait	det
9	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sucre	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 paz	punct
11	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	12 paz	compound
12	paz	paz	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wait	appos
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 paz	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 »	nsubj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 wait	punct
16	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 answer	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 answer	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 answer	det
19	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 answer	amod
20	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sucre	conj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sucre	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	bolivia's capital	sucre and the best answer					tree rules
2	be speech: assert	present	sucre and the best answer	the 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 La Paz is a capital

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	6 capital	advmod
2	La	La	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 capital	nsubj
3	Paz	Paz	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 La	flat
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 capital	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 capital	det
6	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Sucre is the official capital and La Paz is where the government sits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sucre	sucre	NOUN	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	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 capital	amod
5	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 where	cc
7	La	La	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 where	nsubj
8	Paz	Paz	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 La	flat
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 where	cop
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 sits	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 government	det
12	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sits	nsubj
13	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 capital	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Sucre	the official capital		tree rules
2	is	present	La		where property	tree rules
3	sit	present	the government			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Only Santa Cruz is a capital, as it is the biggest city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	6 capital	advmod
2	Santa	Santa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 capital	nsubj
3	Cruz	Cruz	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Santa	flat
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 capital	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 capital	det
6	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 city	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 city	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 city	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 city	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 city	det
12	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 city	amod
13	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 capital	advcl

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

Option 4

Bolivia has no capital

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bolivia	Bolivia	PROPN	Number=Sing	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	Bolivia	no capital					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capital=Patient

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