Test 1 · Europe: countries and capitals

Why can two atlases give different numbers of European countries?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: two atlases · What happens: give · To what, where: different numbers

This is test 1 of lesson 7 «Europe: countries and capitals» 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	5 give	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 atlases	nummod
4	atlases	atlas	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 give	nsubj
5	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 numbers	amod
7	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 give	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 countries	case
9	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 countries	amod
10	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 numbers	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	can	two atlases	different numbers of European countries					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=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 · ← Mova's choice

Countries change every year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 change	nsubj
2	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 year	det
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 change	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	Countries				year		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They count partly European and disputed places differently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 European	nsubj
2	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 European	cop
3	partly	partly	ADV	_	4 European	advmod
4	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 disputed	cc
6	disputed	dispute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 European	conj
7	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 disputed	obj
8	differently	differently	ADV	_	6 disputed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					european, partly property	tree rules
2	dispute	participle	They not said here	places				differently property	tree rules

Option 3

Some atlases forget the islands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 atlases	det
2	atlases	atlas	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 forget	nsubj
3	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 islands	det
5	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	present	some atlases	the islands					tree rules

Option 4

One atlas is always out of date

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 atlas	nummod
2	atlas	atlas	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 date	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 date	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 date	advmod
5	out	out	ADP	_	7 date	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 date	case
7	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	One atlas			date		always property	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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