Test 6 · ★★ · The United States

bro says alaska is huge so loads of ppl must live there. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro, alaska, loads · What happens: say, be, live · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	alaska	alaska	X	Foreign=Yes	5 huge	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 huge	cop
5	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	11 live	mark
7	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 live	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 ppl	case
9	ppl	people	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	7 loads	nmod
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 live	aux
11	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 huge	advcl
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 live	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 huge	punct
14	right	right	ADV	_	2 says	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	bro			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	alaska		huge property	tree rules
3	live	must	loads of ppl	there		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Yes, more than live in California and Texas together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 live	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 more	punct
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 live	advmod
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 live	case
5	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 California	case
7	California	California	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 live	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Texas	cc
9	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 California	conj
10	together	together	ADV	_	5 live	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, it is cold and remote, so few people live there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 cold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cold	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cold	cop
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 remote	cc
7	remote	remote	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cold	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 live	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 live	advmod
10	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 people	amod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 live	nsubj
12	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cold	conj
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	it		cold property	tree rules
2	be					tree rules
3	live	present	few people	there		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

No, nobody at all lives there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 lives	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 lives	compound
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 nobody	nmod
6	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lives	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Yes, it has the biggest city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 city	det
6	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 city	amod
7	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	it	the biggest city					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=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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