Test 9 · ★ · Borders: why they are where they are
A fishing boat from another country fishes 5 nautical miles off your coast without asking. What is true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fishing boat · What happens: fish, ask, be · To what, where: 5 nautical miles
This is test 9 · ★ 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: A fishing boat from another country fishes 5 nautical miles off your coast without asking.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 boat | det |
| 2 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boat | compound |
| 3 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fishes | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 country | case |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 country | det |
| 6 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boat | nmod |
| 7 | fishes | fish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 miles | nummod |
| 9 | nautical | nautical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 miles | amod |
| 10 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fishes | obj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 coast | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 coast | nmod:poss |
| 13 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fishes | obl |
| 14 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 15 asking | mark |
| 15 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 fishes | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fishes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fish | present | a fishing boat from another country | 5 nautical miles | off your coast | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mile=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | a fishing boat from another country not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: What is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It is inside your territorial waters
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 waters | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 waters | cop |
| 3 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 6 waters | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 waters | nmod:poss |
| 5 | territorial | territorial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 waters | amod |
| 6 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | your territorial waters | tree rules |
Option 2
It is on land, legally speaking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 land | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 land | cop |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 land | case |
| 4 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 speaking | punct |
| 6 | legally | legally | ADV | _ | 7 speaking | advmod |
| 7 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 land | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | land | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | legally property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
It is in the exclusive zone only, so it is fine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 zone | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 zone | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 zone | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 zone | det |
| 5 | exclusive | exclusive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 zone | compound |
| 6 | zone | zone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 zone | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fine | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 fine | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fine | expl |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 fine | cop |
| 12 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 zone | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | the exclusive zone | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | fine property | tree rules |
Option 4
It is in the open sea that nobody owns
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sea | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sea | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 sea | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 5 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sea | amod |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 owns | obj |
| 8 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 owns | nsubj |
| 9 | owns | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sea | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | the open sea | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | own | present | nobody | the open sea | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme |
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