Test 11 · ★ · Mountains and highlands

«ural mountains, are they in europe or asia» Which is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: ural mountains, europe · What happens: be · To what, where: europe, best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 17 «Mountains and highlands» 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 mountains	punct
2	ural	ural	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mountains	compound
3	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 europe	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mountains	punct
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 europe	cop
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 europe	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 europe	case
8	europe	europe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 asia	cc
10	asia	asia	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 europe	conj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 asia	punct
12	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 answer	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 answer	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 answer	det
15	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 answer	amod
16	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 europe	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 europe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	ural mountains			europe or asia			tree rules
2	be speech: assert	present	europe or asia	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

They are in Africa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 Africa	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Africa	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Africa	case
4	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They			Africa			tree rules

Option 2

They are in South America

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 America	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 America	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 America	case
4	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 America	compound
5	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They			South America			tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They are commonly used as part of the boundary between Europe and Asia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 used	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 used	aux:pass
3	commonly	commonly	ADV	_	4 used	advmod
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 part	case
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 boundary	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boundary	det
9	boundary	boundary	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 part	nmod
10	between	between	ADP	_	11 Europe	case
11	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 boundary	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Asia	cc
13	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Europe	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · passive		They				as part of the boundary between Europe and Asia; commonly property	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as part=Attribute

Option 4

They are entirely in western Europe, between France and Germany

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Europe	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Europe	cop
3	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	6 Europe	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 Europe	case
5	western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Europe	amod
6	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 France	punct
8	between	between	ADP	_	9 France	case
9	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Europe	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Germany	cc
11	Germany	Germany	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Europe	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They			western Europe and France and Germany		entirely property	tree rules

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