Exam question 2 · Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★
Determine which of the following sovereign states constitutes the sole country of South-East Asia never subjected to European colonial rule.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, South East · What happens: determine, follow, constitute, not subject · To what, where: sole country
This is exam question 2 of lesson 64 «Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 constitutes | obj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 states | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 states | det |
| 5 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 sovereign | case |
| 6 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 states | compound |
| 7 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 constitutes | obl |
| 8 | constitutes | constitute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Determine | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 country | det |
| 10 | sole | sole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 country | amod |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 constitutes | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 East | case |
| 13 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 East | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 South | punct |
| 15 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 country | nmod |
| 16 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 East | flat |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 subjected | advmod |
| 18 | subjected | subject | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 East | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 rule | case |
| 20 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 rule | amod |
| 21 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 rule | amod |
| 22 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 subjected | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | constitute | present | you not said here | the sole country of South East | of the sovereign states | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not subject | past | South East not said here | to European colonial rule | 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
Indonesia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indonesia | Indonesia | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Vietnam
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnam | Vietnam | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Malaysia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Malaysia | Malaysia | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Thailand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thailand | Thailand | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/64-olympiad-which-country-am-i/e2/