Exam question 2 · The United States and its states
Identify the capital of the United States.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify · To what, where: capital
This is exam question 2 of lesson 44 «The United States and its states» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 capital | det |
| 3 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 States | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 States | det |
| 6 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 States | amod |
| 7 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 capital | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the capital of the United States | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent capital=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 · ✓ the right answer
Washington, D.C.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Washington | Washington | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 D.C. | punct |
| 3 | D.C. | D.C. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Washington | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Chicago
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chicago | Chicago | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
New York City
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 York | flat |
| 2 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 City | compound |
| 3 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Los Angeles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Los | Los | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Angeles | Angeles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Los | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/44-the-usa-and-its-states/e2/