Test 3 · ★★ · The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to…

«the Limpopo isn't real, it's a made-up name like Nqong» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Limpopo, Nqong · What happens: not be, make up, be · To what, where: made name

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 61 «The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to the Limpopo, the Amazon and Surrey» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 real	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Limpopo	det
3	Limpopo	Limpopo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 real	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 real	cop
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 real	advmod
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 name	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 name	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 name	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 name	det
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 name	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 up	punct
13	up	up	ADP	_	11 made	compound:prt
14	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 real	obl
15	like	like	ADP	_	16 Nqong	case
16	Nqong	Nqong	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 name	nmod
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 Nqong	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 right	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 right	cop
20	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Nqong	acl:relcl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	the Limpopo		real property	tree rules
2	make up in a quote	participle				vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	is a in a quote	present	Limpopo	a made name	like Nqong	tree rules
4	is	present	Nqong		right property	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.

The options

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

It is a real river in southern 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	5 river	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 river	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 river	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 river	amod
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 Africa	case
7	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Africa	amod
8	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 river	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a real river		southern Africa			tree rules

Option 2

It is a made-up river Kipling drew on his map

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	7 river	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 river	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 river	det
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 river	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 up	punct
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 made	compound:prt
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 drew	nsubj
9	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 river	acl:relcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 map	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 map	nmod:poss
12	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	make up	participle				vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	It	a made river		tree rules
3	draw	past	Kipling	a made river not said here	Kipling's map	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent river=Theme on map=Destination

Option 3

It is a real lake in Scotland

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 lake	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lake	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lake	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lake	amod
5	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Scotland	case
7	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lake	nmod

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

Option 4

It is real, but it is in South America

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 real	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 real	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 America	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 America	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 America	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 America	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 America	case
9	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 America	compound
10	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 real	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					real property	tree rules
2	is	present	it			South America			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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