Test 6 · Europe: countries and capitals

Why did the union with Lithuania make Warsaw a better capital than Kraków?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lithuania · What happens: do, make · To what, where: union, Warsaw

This is test 6 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	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 union	det
4	union	union	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	with	with	SCONJ	_	7 make	mark
6	Lithuania	Lithuania	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 make	nsubj
7	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	advcl
8	Warsaw	warsaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 capital	det
10	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 capital	amod
11	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	xcomp
12	than	than	ADP	_	13 Kraków	case
13	Kraków	Kraków	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 capital	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the union					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent union=Eventuality
2	make	present	Lithuania	Warsaw					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warsaw=Product

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

Kraków was handed over to Lithuania

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kraków	Kraków	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 handed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 handed	aux:pass
3	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	3 handed	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Lithuania	case
6	Lithuania	Lithuania	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 handed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hand over	past · passive		Kraków	Lithuania				vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to lithuania=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Warsaw lay nearer the middle of the joined lands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warsaw	warsaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 lay	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 middle	det
5	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 lands	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lands	det
8	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 lands	amod
9	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 middle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	Warsaw	the middle of the joined lands				near property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	join	participle							vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Lithuania owned Kraków

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lithuania	Lithuania	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 owned	nsubj
2	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Kraków	Kraków	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 owned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own	past	Lithuania	Kraków					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot kraków=Theme

Option 4

Warsaw had the only river in Poland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warsaw	Warsaw	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 river	amod
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Poland	case
7	Poland	Poland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Warsaw	the only river		Poland			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient

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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