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Test 2 · ★ · Borders: why they are where they are

Your cousin drives from France into Germany and sees only a sign. Why no passport check?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin · What happens: drive, see · To what, where: France, sign

This is test 2 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Your cousin drives from France into Germany and sees only a sign.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drives	nsubj
3	drives	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 France	case
5	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 drives	obl
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 Germany	case
7	Germany	Germany	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 drives	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sees	cc
9	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 drives	conj
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 sign	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sign	det
12	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sees	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	present	Your cousin			France		into Germany	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from france=Trajectory
2	see	present	Your cousin not said here	a sign					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sign=Stimulus

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: Why no passport check?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 check	det
3	passport	passport	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 check	compound
4	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Drivers never need passports anywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 need	advmod
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	passports	passport	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	obj
5	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 need	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present	Drivers	passports				anywhere property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot passport=Theme

Option 2

Germany has no border police at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Germany	Germany	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 police	det
4	border	border	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 police	compound
5	police	police	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 police	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Germany	no border police		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent police=Patient

Option 3

The border was moved that morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 border	det
2	border	border	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moved	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 moved	aux:pass
4	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 morning	mark
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moved	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	past · passive		the border			morning		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Both are in the Schengen Area

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 Area	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Area	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 Area	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Area	det
5	Schengen	Schengen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Area	compound
6	Area	Area	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Both			the Schengen Area			tree rules

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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