Test 7 · The United States and its states

Which is true about Washington, D.C.?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 7 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	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 Washington	case
5	Washington	Washington	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 D.C.	punct
7	D.C.	D.C.	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Washington	nmod:unmarked
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about Washington D.C.; 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 · ✓ the right answer

It is the capital and is not part of any 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	4 capital	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 capital	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 capital	det
4	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 part	cc
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 part	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 part	advmod
8	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 capital	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 state	case
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 state	det
11	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 part	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the capital and part					tree rules
2	not is a	present		part				of any state	tree rules

Option 2

It is the largest city of the 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 city	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 city	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 city	det
4	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 city	amod
5	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 country	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 country	det
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 city	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the largest city				of the country	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It is in the state of Washington on 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	5 state	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 state	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 state	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 state	det
5	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Washington	case
7	Washington	Washington	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 state	nmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 Pacific	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Pacific	det
10	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 state	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			the state		of Washington; on the Pacific	tree rules

Option 4

It is in the middle of the Great Plains

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 middle	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 middle	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 middle	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 middle	det
5	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 Plains	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Plains	det
8	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Plains	amod
9	Plains	Plain	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 middle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			the middle		of the Great Plains	tree rules

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