Test 11 · ★ · Borders: why they are where they are
lol my brother says the Somali people all live in Somalia. right?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, Somali people · What happens: say, live · To what, where: Somalia · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 31 «Borders: why they are where they are» 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 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 4 says | discourse |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 people | det |
| 6 | Somali | somali | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 people | amod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 live | nsubj |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 live | advmod |
| 9 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | ccomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Somalia | case |
| 11 | Somalia | Somalia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 live | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 13 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 4 says | discourse |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | my brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | live | present | the Somali people | Somalia | all property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in somalia=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.
The options
Option 1
No, they all live in Egypt now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 live | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 live | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 live | advmod |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Egypt | case |
| 7 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 live | obl |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 live | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | they | Egypt | now | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in egypt=Location |
Option 2
Yes, the border was drawn around them exactly, so they all fit inside
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 drawn | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 border | det |
| 4 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drawn | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 drawn | aux:pass |
| 6 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | around | around | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 drawn | obl |
| 9 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 6 drawn | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fit | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 fit | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fit | nsubj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 fit | advmod |
| 14 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 drawn | conj |
| 15 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 14 fit | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past · passive | the border | around them = they; exactly property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fit | present | they | inside property | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, every Somali lives inside Somalia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 lives | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 Somali | det |
| 4 | Somali | somali | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lives | nsubj |
| 5 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 7 Somalia | case |
| 7 | Somalia | Somalia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lives | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | every Somali | Somalia | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside somalia=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
No, they also live in Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 live | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 live | nsubj |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 live | advmod |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Ethiopia | case |
| 7 | Ethiopia | Ethiopia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 live | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Kenya | punct |
| 9 | Kenya | Kenya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Ethiopia | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Djibouti | cc |
| 11 | Djibouti | Djibouti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Ethiopia | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | they | Ethiopia and Kenya and Djibouti | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ethiopia=Location |
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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