Test 9 · Languages and peoples on the map

Can a people exist without its own country?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: exist

This is test 9 of lesson 25 «Languages and peoples on the map» 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	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 exist	aux
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 exist	nsubj
4	exist	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	without	without	ADP	_	8 country	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 country	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 country	amod
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 exist	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 exist	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exist	can	a people					without its own country	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

No, every people in the world has its own country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 has	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 people	det
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 has	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 world	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 world	det
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 people	nmod
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 country	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 country	amod
11	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	every people in the world	world's own country					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Patient

Option 2

No, a people disappears without a state of its own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 disappears	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 disappears	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 people	det
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 disappears	nsubj
5	disappears	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	without	without	ADP	_	8 state	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 state	det
8	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 disappears	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 own	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 own	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 state	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	present	a people					without a state of state's own	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yes, but only on small islands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 islands	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 islands	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 islands	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 islands	case
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 islands	amod
7	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, like the Kurds, split between several states

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 split	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 split	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 Kurds	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Kurds	det
5	Kurds	Kurd	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 split	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 split	punct
7	split	split	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	between	between	ADP	_	10 states	case
9	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 states	amod
10	states	state	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 split	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	participle						like the Kurds; between several states	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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