Test 9 · ★★ · Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely reported

Noah in Ohio asks: «Gaza's a country, right? Like Canada?» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Noah, Gaza, best answer · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: country · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 26 «Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely reported» of the politics 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: Noah in Ohio asks: «Gaza's a country, right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 asks	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Ohio	case
3	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Noah	nmod
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 country	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 country	punct
7	Gaza	Gaza	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 country	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 country	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 country	det
10	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asks	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 country	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	4 asks	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Noah in Ohio						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	Gaza	a country					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.

Sentence 2: Like Canada?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	2 Canada	case
2	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Canada	punct
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Canada	punct

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

Sentence 3: What is the best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1

No, it is a city in Ohio

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 city	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 city	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 city	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 city	det
6	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Ohio	case
8	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 city	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a city		Ohio			tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is a small strip of land where about two million Palestinians live, next to Israel and Egypt

The tree, 18 words

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 strip	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 strip	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 strip	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 strip	amod
5	strip	strip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 land	case
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strip	nmod
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 live	advmod
9	about	about	ADV	_	11 million	advmod
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 million	compound
11	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 Palestinians	nummod
12	Palestinians	Palestinian	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 live	nsubj
13	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 land	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Israel	punct
15	next	next	ADV	_	17 Israel	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Israel	case
17	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 strip	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Egypt	cc
19	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Israel	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a small strip	Israel and Egypt			of land	tree rules
2	live	present	million Palestinians						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yes, and it is bigger than Canada, with more than a hundred million people living in its cities and forests

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 bigger	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bigger	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bigger	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bigger	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bigger	cop
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 Canada	case
8	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bigger	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 people	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	16 people	case
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	15 million	advmod
12	than	than	ADP	_	11 more	fixed
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hundred	det
14	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 million	compound
15	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 people	nummod
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bigger	obl
17	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 people	acl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 cities	case
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 cities	nmod:poss
20	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 living	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 forests	cc
22	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 cities	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					than Canada; with million people; big property	tree rules
2	live	gerund	million people not said here			its cities and forests			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location

Option 4

It is an island in the Pacific

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a island		the Pacific			tree rules

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