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Test 5 · Population and cities

In the game, a small rich province can hold more people than a huge empty one. Is that true of real countries?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: small rich province, that · What happens: hold, be · To what, where: more people, game

This is test 5 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: In the game, a small rich province can hold more people than a huge empty one.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 game	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hold	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 game	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 province	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 province	amod
7	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 province	amod
8	province	province	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hold	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hold	aux
10	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 people	amod
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hold	obj
13	than	than	ADP	_	17 one	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 one	det
15	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 one	amod
16	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 one	amod
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hold	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	can	a small rich province	more people		the game		than a huge empty one	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent people=Theme in game=Location

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: Is that true of real countries?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 true	nsubj
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 countries	case
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 countries	amod
6	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					of real countries; true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

No, bigger countries always have more people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 countries	amod
4	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 have	advmod
6	have	have	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 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	bigger countries	more people				always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

Option 2

No, population depends only on the number of cities

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 population	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 depends	nsubj
4	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 number	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 number	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 number	det
8	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 depends	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 cities	case
10	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 number	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	depend	present	population					on the number of cities	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on number=Theme

Option 3

Yes, but only in the 1300s

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 1300s	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 1300s	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 1300s	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 1300s	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 1300s	det
7	1300s	1300	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, Bangladesh has far more people than huge Australia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 Australia	case
9	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Australia	amod
10	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 people	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Bangladesh	more people				than huge Australia	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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