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Test 9 · ★ · The British Isles and the United Kingdom

Gibraltar became British in 1704. Why is it so useful to a sea power?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Gibraltar, it · What happens: become, be · To what, where: 1704

This is test 9 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Gibraltar became British in 1704.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gibraltar	Gibraltar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 became	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 1704	case
5	1704	1704	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 became	obl
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 became	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	Gibraltar					in 1704 result; british property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1704=Result

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: Why is it so useful to a sea power?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 useful	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 useful	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 useful	nsubj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 useful	advmod
5	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 power	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 power	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 power	compound
9	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 useful	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 useful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					to a sea power; useful property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It guards the entrance to the Mediterranean

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 guards	nsubj
2	guards	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 entrance	det
4	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guards	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 Mediterranean	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Mediterranean	det
7	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 guards	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	present	It	the entrance				to the Mediterranean	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent entrance=Beneficiary

Option 2

It is in the middle of the Atlantic

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	5 middle	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 middle	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 middle	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 middle	det
5	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Atlantic	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Atlantic	det
8	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 middle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			the middle		of the Atlantic	tree rules

Option 3

It has the richest farms in Europe

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 farms	det
4	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 farms	amod
5	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Europe	case
7	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 farms	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	the richest farms		Europe			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farm=Patient

Option 4

It is the highest rock in Europe

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	5 rock	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rock	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rock	det
4	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 rock	amod
5	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Europe	case
7	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 rock	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the highest rock		Europe			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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