Test 8 · Countries, peoples and languages of the world

Which statement about countries with the most people is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: statement · What happens: be

This is test 8 of lesson 46 «Countries, peoples and languages of the world» 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 statement	det
2	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 true	nsubj
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 countries	case
4	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 statement	nmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 people	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 people	det
7	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 countries	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 true	cop
10	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which statement about countries with the most people					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 · ← Mova's choice

Australia has many more people than India

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	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 India	case
7	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 people	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Australia	many more people				than India	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

Option 2

Russia has more people than India and China together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 India	case
6	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 people	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 China	cc
8	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 India	conj
9	together	together	ADV	_	2 has	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Russia	more people				than India and China; together property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

Option 3

Canada has more people than China and Japan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 China	case
6	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 people	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Japan	cc
8	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 China	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Canada	more people				than China and Japan	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

India and China each have over a billion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 have	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 China	cc
3	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 India	conj
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 have	advmod
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	over	over	ADV	_	8 billion	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 billion	det
8	billion	billion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have over	present	India and China	a billion					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent billion=Patient

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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