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title: «Bangladesh and Pakistan used to be the same country, right?» What i… — East, South and South-East Asia: count… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Bangladesh and Pakistan used to be the same country, right?» What is right? Test 11 of lesson 11 «East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was 
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# Test 11 · East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals

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«Bangladesh and Pakistan used to be the same country, right?» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Bangladesh · **What happens:** use, be · **To what, where:** same country

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This is test 11 of lesson 11 «East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals» of the geography 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/11-east-south-and-south-east-asia/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «Bangladesh and Pakistan used to be the same country, right?»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:11-east-south-and-south-east-asia:t11:1
# text = «Bangladesh and Pakistan used to be the same country, right?»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Pakistan	Pakistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** *in a quote* | past | Bangladesh and Pakistan |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Bangladesh and Pakistan *not said here* | the same country |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:11-east-south-and-south-east-asia:t11:2
# text = What is right?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Yes, from 1947 to 1971 Bangladesh was East Pakistan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:11-east-south-and-south-east-asia:t11:o1:1
# text = Yes, from 1947 to 1971 Bangladesh was East Pakistan
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	1947	1947	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1971	1971	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
7	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Pakistan	Pakistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Bangladesh East |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, both were part of China until 1971

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:11-east-south-and-south-east-asia:t11:o2:1
# text = Yes, both were part of China until 1971
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	until	until	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1971	1971	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | both part |  |  | until 1971 | of China | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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No, Bangladesh was always part of Myanmar until it broke away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:11-east-south-and-south-east-asia:t11:o3:1
# text = No, Bangladesh was always part of Myanmar until it broke away
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Myanmar	Myanmar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Bangladesh | part |  |  |  | of Myanmar; always *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **break away** | past | part |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, they were never joined

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:11-east-south-and-south-east-asia:t11:o4:1
# text = No, they were never joined
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **join** | past · passive |  | they |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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**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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