Test 9 · The United States and its states

Which list gives places from east to west across the United States?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: list · What happens: give · To what, where: places, United States, east

This is test 9 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 list	det
2	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	nsubj
3	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gives	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 east	case
6	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 places	nmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	12 States	case
8	west	west	ADV	_	12 States	advmod
9	across	across	ADP	_	12 States	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 States	det
11	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 States	amod
12	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 gives	iobj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 gives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	which list	places	the United States	east			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent state=Recipient place=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

New York, California, Colorado

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	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 California	punct
4	California	California	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 York	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Colorado	punct
6	Colorado	Colorado	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 York	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

New York, Colorado, California

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	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Colorado	punct
4	Colorado	Colorado	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 York	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 California	punct
6	California	California	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 York	conj

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

Option 3

Colorado, New York, California

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Colorado	Colorado	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 York	punct
3	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 York	flat
4	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Colorado	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 California	punct
6	California	California	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Colorado	nmod

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

Option 4

California, Colorado, New York

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	California	California	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Colorado	punct
3	Colorado	Colorado	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 California	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 York	punct
5	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 York	flat
6	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 California	conj

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.

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