Test 11 · ★★ · Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands
A pub quiz card says Monaco is the smallest country in the world. How do you fix it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: quiz card, Monaco, you · What happens: say, be, fix · To what, where: smallest country, world · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★★ 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: A pub quiz card says Monaco is the smallest country in the world.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 card | det |
| 2 | pub | pub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 quiz | compound |
| 3 | quiz | quiz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 card | compound |
| 4 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Monaco | Monaco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 country | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 country | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 country | det |
| 9 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 country | amod |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | ccomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 world | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 world | det |
| 13 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 country | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a quiz card | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Monaco | the smallest country | the world | tree rules |
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: How do you fix it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 fix | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fix | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 fix | nsubj |
| 4 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fix | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 fix | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | present · do-support | you | world | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Vatican City is the smallest, and Monaco is second
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vatican | Vatican | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 City | compound |
| 2 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 smallest | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 smallest | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 smallest | det |
| 5 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 second | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 second | cc |
| 8 | Monaco | Monaco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 second | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 second | cop |
| 10 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 smallest | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Vatican City | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Monaco | second property | tree rules |
Option 2
San Marino is the smallest, Monaco is third
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 smallest | nsubj |
| 2 | Marino | Marino | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 San | flat |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 smallest | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 smallest | det |
| 5 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 smallest | punct |
| 7 | Monaco | Monaco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 third | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 third | cop |
| 9 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 smallest | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | San | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Monaco | third property | tree rules |
Option 3
Monaco is right, the Vatican is not a country
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monaco | Monaco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 country | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Vatican | det |
| 6 | Vatican | Vatican | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 country | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 country | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 country | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 country | det |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 right | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Monaco | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | the Vatican | a country | tree rules |
Option 4
Liechtenstein is the smallest, Monaco is second
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liechtenstein | Liechtenstein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 smallest | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 smallest | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 smallest | det |
| 4 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 smallest | punct |
| 6 | Monaco | Monaco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 second | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 second | cop |
| 8 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 smallest | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Liechtenstein | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Monaco | second property | 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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