Test 2 · ★ · The British Isles and the United Kingdom

Why might some Irish people prefer a name such as "Britain and Ireland"?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Irish people · What happens: prefer · To what, where: name

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 8 «The British Isles and the United Kingdom» 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	6 prefer	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 prefer	aux
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 people	det
4	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 prefer	nsubj
6	prefer	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 name	det
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prefer	obj
9	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 name	amod
10	as	as	ADP	_	9 such	fixed
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Britain	punct
12	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 name	appos
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Ireland	cc
14	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Britain	conj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Britain	punct
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 prefer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prefer	might	some Irish people	a name					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus

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

It is shorter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shorter	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shorter	cop
3	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					short property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It is the name used in the Bible for the islands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 name	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 name	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 name	det
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 name	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 Bible	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Bible	det
8	Bible	Bible	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 used	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 islands	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 islands	det
11	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the name					tree rules
2	use	participle		the name not said here		the Bible		for the islands	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It does not suggest Ireland belongs to Britain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 suggest	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 suggest	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 suggest	advmod
4	suggest	suggest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 belongs	nsubj
6	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 suggest	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Britain	case
8	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 belongs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not suggest speech: suggest	present · do-support	It						vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	belong	present	Ireland		Britain				vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It includes France too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 includes	nsubj
2	includes	include	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 includes	obj
4	too	too	ADV	_	2 includes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	include	present	It	France					vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent france=Theme

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