Test 3 · ★★ · Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands

Why did San Marino survive when other small Italian states did not?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: San, other small Italian states · What happens: survive, not do

This is test 3 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 survive	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 San	aux
3	San	San	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 survive	nsubj
4	Marino	Marino	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 San	flat
5	survive	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 did	advmod
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 states	amod
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 states	amod
9	Italian	Italian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 states	amod
10	states	state	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 did	nsubj
11	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 survive	advcl
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 did	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 survive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	present	San						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not do	past	other small Italian states						vn act-114-1 «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.

The options

Option 1

It was hidden on an island

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	3 hidden	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hidden	aux:pass
3	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 island	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 island	det
6	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · passive		It		a island			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient on island=Location

Option 2

It was part of France

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	3 part	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 part	cop
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 France	case
5	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 part	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	part				of France	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It stayed small, neutral and on its mountain, and was left alone

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	2 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stayed	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 neutral	punct
5	neutral	neutral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 small	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 mountain	cc
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 mountain	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mountain	nmod:poss
9	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 small	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 left	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 left	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 left	aux:pass
13	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stayed	conj
14	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 left	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	It					small property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	past · passive						alone property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»

Option 4

It had the biggest army in Italy and beat everyone who attacked

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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 army	det
4	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 army	amod
5	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Italy	case
7	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 beat	cc
9	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 beat	obj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 attacked	nsubj
12	attacked	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 everyone	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	It	the biggest army	Italy	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Patient
2	beat	past		everyone		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location everyone=Theme
3	attack	past				vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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