Test 7 · ★★ · The United States

Which is true about California?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 California	case
5	California	California	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about California; true property	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

It has more people than any other state

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	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
5	than	than	ADP	_	8 state	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 state	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 state	amod
8	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 people	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	more people				than any other state	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

Option 2

It is the smallest state in the whole country

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 state	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 state	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 state	det
4	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 state	amod
5	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 country	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 country	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 country	amod
9	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 state	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the smallest state		the whole country			tree rules

Option 3

It joined in 1959

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 joined	nsubj
2	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 1959	case
4	1959	1959	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 joined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join	past	It					in 1959	vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in 1959=Theme

Option 4

It was bought from Russia

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 bought	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bought	aux:pass
3	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 Russia	case
5	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 bought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past · passive		It		Russia			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from russia=Source

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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