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Test 9 · ★★ · Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands

Your friend says Lesotho is an island. What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: friend, Lesotho · What happens: say, be · To what, where: island · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ 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: Your friend says Lesotho is an island.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Lesotho	Lesotho	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 island	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 island	cop
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 island	det
7	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your friend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	Lesotho	a island					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: What is wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is on land, completely surrounded by South Africa

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 surrounded	punct
6	completely	completely	ADV	_	7 surrounded	advmod
7	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 land	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 Africa	case
9	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Africa	compound
10	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 surrounded	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			land			tree rules
2	surround	participle		land not said here				completely property	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It is 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	4 Europe	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Europe	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Europe	case
4	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			Europe			tree rules

Option 3

It is under the sea

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 sea	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sea	cop
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			the sea			tree rules

Option 4

Nothing, it is an island in the Indian Ocean near Madagascar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 island	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 island	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 island	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 island	det
6	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 Ocean	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Ocean	det
9	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Ocean	amod
10	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 island	nmod
11	near	near	ADP	_	12 Madagascar	case
12	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Ocean	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nothing	a island		the Indian Ocean near Madagascar			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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