Exam question 3 · The British Isles and the United Kingdom
Identify the status of the Bailiwick of Jersey in respect of the United Kingdom.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, respect · To what, where: status, respect, United Kingdom
This is exam question 3 of lesson 8 «The British Isles and the United Kingdom» 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 status | det |
| 3 | status | status | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Bailiwick | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Bailiwick | det |
| 6 | Bailiwick | Bailiwick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 status | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Jersey | case |
| 8 | Jersey | Jersey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Bailiwick | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 respect | case |
| 10 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Kingdom | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Kingdom | det |
| 13 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 14 Kingdom | flat |
| 14 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 respect | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the status of the Bailiwick of Jersey | respect of the United Kingdom | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent status=Theme | |||
| 2 | respect | the United Kingdom | nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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
A region of Scotland
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 region | det |
| 2 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Scotland | case |
| 4 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 region | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A Crown Dependency, not forming part of the United Kingdom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Dependency | det |
| 2 | Crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Dependency | compound |
| 3 | Dependency | dependency | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 part | punct |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 forming | advmod |
| 6 | forming | form | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 part | amod |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Dependency | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Kingdom | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Kingdom | det |
| 10 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 11 Kingdom | flat |
| 11 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 part | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not form | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
A county of England
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 county | det |
| 2 | county | county | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 England | case |
| 4 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 county | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A British Overseas Territory in the Atlantic
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Territory | det |
| 2 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Territory | amod |
| 3 | Overseas | Overseas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Territory | compound |
| 4 | Territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Atlantic | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Atlantic | det |
| 7 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Territory | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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