Test 10 · ★★ · Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands
In 1982 two countries fought a short war over islands in the South Atlantic. Which?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: two countries · What happens: fight · To what, where: short war, 1982
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 39 «Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands» 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 1982 two countries fought a short war over islands in the South Atlantic.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1982 | case |
| 2 | 1982 | 1982 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 fought | obl |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 countries | nummod |
| 4 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fought | nsubj |
| 5 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 war | det |
| 7 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 war | amod |
| 8 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fought | obj |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 islands | case |
| 10 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fought | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Atlantic | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Atlantic | det |
| 13 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Atlantic | compound |
| 14 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 islands | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fought | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | two countries | a short war | 1982 | over islands in the South Atlantic | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent war=Co-Agent over island=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.
Sentence 2: Which?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Which | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
China and Taiwan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Taiwan | cc |
| 3 | Taiwan | Taiwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 China | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Britain and Argentina
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Argentina | cc |
| 3 | Argentina | Argentina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Britain | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
India and Pakistan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Pakistan | cc |
| 3 | Pakistan | Pakistan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 India | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Spain and Portugal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Portugal | cc |
| 3 | Portugal | Portugal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Spain | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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