Test 3 · Population and cities
Egypt's people are packed in a thin strip. Where is it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: strip · What happens: pack, be · To what, where: people, thin strip
This is test 3 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
Sentence 1: Egypt's people are packed in a thin strip.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 people | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Egypt | case |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 packed | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 packed | aux:pass |
| 5 | packed | pack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 strip | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 strip | det |
| 8 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 strip | amod |
| 9 | strip | strip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 packed | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 packed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pack | present · passive | Egypt's people | a thin strip | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in strip=Destination |
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.
Sentence 2: Where is it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Where | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Where | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Where | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | strip | where property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Along the Red Sea mountains
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Along | along | ADP | _ | 5 mountains | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mountains | det |
| 3 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Sea | compound |
| 4 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mountains | compound |
| 5 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Along the River Nile
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Along | along | ADP | _ | 4 Nile | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Nile | det |
| 3 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Nile | compound |
| 4 | Nile | Nile | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Around the oases of Libya
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Around | around | ADP | _ | 3 oases | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 oases | det |
| 3 | oases | oasis | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Libya | case |
| 5 | Libya | Libya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 oases | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
In the middle of the Sahara
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 middle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 middle | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Sahara | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sahara | det |
| 6 | Sahara | Sahara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 middle | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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