Test 1 · ★★ · The United States

Why was the capital of the United States put outside every state?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: capital, United States · What happens: be, put · To what, where: state

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 9 «The United States» 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=Rel	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 capital	det
4	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 States	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 States	det
7	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 States	amod
8	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 capital	nmod
9	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 States	acl
10	outside	outside	ADV	_	9 put	advmod
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 state	det
12	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the capital of the United States					why property	tree rules
2	put	participle	the United States not said here	every state				outside property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent state=Goal

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

Because it was a Native town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 town	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 town	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 town	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 town	det
5	Native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 town	amod
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a Native town					tree rules

Option 2

Because the British chose the place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 chose	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 British	det
3	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chose	nsubj
4	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 place	det
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past	the British	the place					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme

Option 3

Because no state wanted it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 wanted	mark
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 state	det
3	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	no state	it					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

So no single state would control the government

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 control	advmod
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 state	det
3	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 state	amod
4	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 control	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 control	aux
6	control	control	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 government	det
8	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 control	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	control	would	no single state	the government					vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent government=Theme

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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