Test 2 · ★ · The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
A girl in Sydney says her city is the capital of Australia. What is true?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, city · What happens: say, be · To what, where: capital · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 45 «The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand» 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
Sentence 1: A girl in Sydney says her city is the capital of Australia.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Sydney | case |
| 4 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 city | nmod:poss |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 capital | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 capital | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 capital | det |
| 10 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Australia | case |
| 12 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 capital | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a girl in Sydney | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | girl's city | the capital | of Australia | 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: What is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 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 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Australia has no capital city
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 city | det |
| 4 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 city | compound |
| 5 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Australia | no capital city | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Sydney is the largest city but Canberra is the capital
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 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 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 capital | cc |
| 7 | Canberra | Canberra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 capital | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 capital | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 capital | det |
| 10 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 city | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Sydney | the largest city but the capital | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Canberra | the capital | tree rules |
Option 3
She is right, Sydney is the capital
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 capital | punct |
| 5 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 capital | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 capital | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 capital | det |
| 8 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 right | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | She | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Sydney | the capital | tree rules |
Option 4
Melbourne is both the capital and the largest city
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Melbourne | Melbourne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 capital | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 capital | cop |
| 3 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 5 capital | cc:preconj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 capital | det |
| 5 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 city | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 city | det |
| 8 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 city | amod |
| 9 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 capital | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Melbourne | the capital and the largest city | tree rules |
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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