Test 11 · ★★ · Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the othe…

Why do Russia's warships care about the Turkish Straits?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: warships · What happens: do, care

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 care	advcl
3	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 warships	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Russia	case
5	warships	warship	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 care	nsubj
6	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	10 Straits	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Straits	det
9	Turkish	Turkish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Straits	amod
10	Straits	Strait	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 care	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 care	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	Russia's warships not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	care	present	Russia's warships					about the Turkish Straits	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about strait=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

They are Russia's only way out to the Arctic Ocean and the frozen seas of the far north

The tree, 19 words

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 way	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 way	cop
3	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 way	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 way	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 way	advmod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	out	out	ADV	_	6 way	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 Ocean	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Ocean	det
10	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Ocean	compound
11	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 way	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 seas	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 seas	det
14	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 seas	amod
15	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 way	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 north	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 north	det
18	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 north	amod
19	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seas	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	way and the frozen seas of the far north				to the Arctic Ocean; out property	tree rules
2	freeze	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

They lead straight from the Black Sea to the Pacific Ocean

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	2 lead	nsubj
2	lead	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	2 lead	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 Sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sea	det
6	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Sea	compound
7	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lead	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 Ocean	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Ocean	det
10	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Ocean	compound
11	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lead	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	present	They			the Black Sea		to the Pacific Ocean; straight property	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to ocean=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They are the only sea way from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean

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 way	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 way	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 way	compound
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 Sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Sea	det
9	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Sea	compound
10	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 way	nmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 Mediterranean	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Mediterranean	det
13	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 way	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	the only sea way		the Black Sea		to the Mediterranean	tree rules

Option 4

They are where Russia builds and repairs all its warships

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 builds	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 builds	cop
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 builds	advmod
4	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 builds	nsubj
5	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 repairs	cc
7	repairs	repair	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 builds	conj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 warships	det:predet
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 warships	nmod:poss
10	warships	warship	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 repairs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					build property	tree rules
2	repair	present	They not said here	its warships					vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent warship=Patient

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