Test 11 · Population and cities

Why can a small country hold more people than a huge one?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: small country · What happens: hold · To what, where: more people

This is test 11 of lesson 24 «Population and cities» 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	6 hold	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hold	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 country	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 country	amod
5	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hold	nsubj
6	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hold	obj
9	than	than	ADP	_	12 one	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 one	det
11	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	amod
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hold	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	can	a small country	more people				than a huge one	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

Its land may be flatter, wetter and better for farming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 land	nmod:poss
2	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flatter	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 flatter	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 flatter	cop
5	flatter	flat	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wetter	punct
7	wetter	wet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 flatter	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 better	cc
9	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 flatter	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 farming	case
11	farming	farming	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flatter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	may	Its land	for farming; flat property	tree rules
2	be		Its land not said here		tree rules
3	be		Its land not said here		tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Small countries make people live longer, so more of them are alive at once

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 countries	amod
2	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj
5	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	xcomp
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 live	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 alive	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	13 alive	advmod
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 alive	advmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 more	nmod
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 alive	cop
13	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 make	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 once	case
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 alive	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	Small countries	people		tree rules
2	live	infinitive	people not said here		long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	Small countries not said here		alive property	tree rules

Option 3

Big countries do not allow cities

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 countries	amod
2	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 allow	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 allow	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 allow	advmod
5	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 allow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · do-support	Big countries	cities					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Beneficiary

Option 4

People are counted twice in small countries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 counted	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 counted	aux:pass
3	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 counted	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 countries	case
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 countries	amod
7	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 counted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present · passive		People		small countries		twice property	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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