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title: «mongolia's tiny innit, like a little country» What is true? — East, South and South-East Asia: count… · tree and pragmatics
description: «mongolia's tiny innit, like a little country» What is true? Test 4 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 wrong.
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# Test 4 · East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals

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«mongolia's tiny innit, like a little country» What is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** tiny innit · **What happens:** be

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This is test 4 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:11-east-south-and-south-east-asia:t4:1
# text = «mongolia's tiny innit, like a little country» What is true?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	mongolia	mongolia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | mongolia's tiny innit |  |  |  |  | true *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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Mongolia is a small island in the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:11-east-south-and-south-east-asia:t4:o1:1
# text = Mongolia is a small island in the sea
1	Mongolia	Mongolia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Mongolia is huge in area but has only about 3.5 million people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:11-east-south-and-south-east-asia:t4:o2:1
# text = Mongolia is huge in area but has only about 3.5 million people
1	Mongolia	Mongolia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	3.5	3.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	compound	_	_
11	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Mongolia |  |  | area |  | huge *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | Mongolia *not said here* | million people |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Mongolia is tiny in area and very crowded, a bit like Singapore or Malta

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:11-east-south-and-south-east-asia:t4:o3:1
# text = Mongolia is tiny in area and very crowded, a bit like Singapore or Malta
1	Mongolia	Mongolia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	crowded	crowded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Malta	Malta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Mongolia |  |  | area |  | tiny *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Mongolia *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Mongolia is part of Russia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:11-east-south-and-south-east-asia:t4:o4:1
# text = Mongolia is part of Russia
1	Mongolia	Mongolia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Mongolia | part |  |  |  | of Russia | tree rules |

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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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