Exam question 3 · Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★
A state possesses three capital cities and wholly encloses another sovereign state. Ascertain its identity.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: state, you · What happens: possess, enclose, ascertain · To what, where: three capital cities, sovereign state, identity
This is exam question 3 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
Sentence 1: A state possesses three capital cities and wholly encloses another sovereign state.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 state | det |
| 2 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 possesses | nsubj |
| 3 | possesses | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 cities | nummod |
| 5 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cities | compound |
| 6 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 possesses | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 encloses | cc |
| 8 | wholly | wholly | ADV | _ | 9 encloses | advmod |
| 9 | encloses | enclose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 possesses | conj |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 state | det |
| 11 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 state | compound |
| 12 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 encloses | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 possesses | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | possess | present | a state | three capital cities | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot city=Theme | ||||
| 2 | enclose | present | a state not said here | another sovereign state | wholly property | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme state=Co-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.
Sentence 2: Ascertain its identity.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 identity | nmod:poss |
| 3 | identity | identity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | state's identity | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent identity=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
South Africa
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Africa | compound |
| 2 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nigeria
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nigeria | Nigeria | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Italy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Switzerland
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Switzerland | Switzerland | 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.
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