Test 12 · The United States and its states

my cousin says New York City is the capital of the USA. true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cousin, York City · What happens: say, be · To what, where: capital · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 of lesson 44 «The United States and its states» of the world 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 York	flat
5	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 City	compound
6	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 capital	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 capital	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 capital	det
9	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 USA	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 USA	det
12	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 capital	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 capital	punct
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my cousin					true property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	York City	the capital				of the USA	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

No, the capital is Washington, D.C.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 Washington	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 capital	det
4	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Washington	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Washington	cop
6	Washington	Washington	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 D.C.	punct
8	D.C.	D.C.	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Washington	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the capital	Washington				D.C. nmod:unmarked	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, and Washington is a state

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 state	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Washington	cc
4	Washington	Washington	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 state	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 state	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 state	det
7	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

No, the capital is Los Angeles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 Los	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 capital	det
4	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Los	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Los	cop
6	Los	Los	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	Angeles	Angeles	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Los	flat

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

Option 4

Yes, it is the biggest so it is the capital

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 biggest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 biggest	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 biggest	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 biggest	det
6	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 capital	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 capital	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 capital	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 capital	det
11	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 biggest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					big property	tree rules
2	is a	present	it	the capital					tree rules

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