Test 6 · ★★ · Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands

Why did Britain want Gibraltar?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Britain · What happens: want · To what, where: Gibraltar

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	4 want	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Gibraltar	Gibraltar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 want	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	Britain	Gibraltar					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gibraltar=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.

The options

Option 1

It was the birthplace of Queen Victoria

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 birthplace	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 birthplace	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 birthplace	det
4	birthplace	birthplace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Queen	case
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 birthplace	nmod
7	Victoria	Victoria	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Queen	flat

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

Option 2

It had huge gold and silver mines deep inside the Rock, worked since Roman times

The tree, 15 words

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	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gold	amod
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 mines	cc
6	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mines	compound
7	mines	mine	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gold	conj
8	deep	deep	ADV	_	11 Rock	advmod
9	inside	inside	ADP	_	11 Rock	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Rock	det
11	Rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 worked	punct
13	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 Rock	acl
14	since	since	ADP	_	16 times	case
15	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 times	amod
16	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 worked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	It	huge gold and silver mines					tree rules
2	work	participle		the Rock not said here			time		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It was the biggest farmland in Europe

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	5 farmland	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 farmland	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 farmland	det
4	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 farmland	amod
5	farmland	farmland	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Europe	case
7	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 farmland	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the biggest farmland		Europe			tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It guards the narrow strait between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean

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 guards	nsubj
2	guards	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 strait	det
4	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 strait	amod
5	strait	strait	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guards	obj
6	between	between	ADP	_	8 Atlantic	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Atlantic	det
8	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 strait	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Mediterranean	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Mediterranean	det
11	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Atlantic	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	present	It	the narrow strait				between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strait=Beneficiary

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