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title: «capital of Malaysia?? its putrajaya innit» What is right? — East, South and South-East Asia: count… · tree and pragmatics
description: «capital of Malaysia?? its putrajaya innit» What is right? Test 2 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 right.
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# Test 2 · East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals

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«capital of Malaysia?? its putrajaya innit» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** capital · **What happens:** ??, be · **To what, where:** putrajaya innit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:11-east-south-and-south-east-asia:t2:1
# text = «capital of Malaysia?? its putrajaya innit» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Malaysia	Malaysia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	??	??	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	putrajaya	putrajaya	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **??** *in a quote* | present | capital of Malaysia | capital's putrajaya innit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Putrajaya is the only capital, and Kuala Lumpur is just a small village by the river

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:11-east-south-and-south-east-asia:t2:o1:1
# text = Putrajaya is the only capital, and Kuala Lumpur is just a small village by the river
1	Putrajaya	Putrajaya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
8	Kuala	Kuala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Lumpur	Lumpur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Putrajaya | the only capital |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Kuala Lumpur | a small village |  |  |  | by the river | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The capital is Jakarta

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:11-east-south-and-south-east-asia:t2:o2:1
# text = The capital is Jakarta
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Jakarta	Jakarta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the capital | Jakarta |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The capital is Singapore

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:11-east-south-and-south-east-asia:t2:o3:1
# text = The capital is Singapore
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the capital | Singapore |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The capital is Kuala Lumpur, though much of the government works in Putrajaya

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:11-east-south-and-south-east-asia:t2:o4:1
# text = The capital is Kuala Lumpur, though much of the government works in Putrajaya
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Kuala	Kuala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	Lumpur	Lumpur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Putrajaya	Putrajaya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the capital | Kuala |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | present | much of the government |  |  |  |  | in Putrajaya | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in putrajaya=Theme |

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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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