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title: «the capital of ivory coast is abidjan obviously» What is right? — Africa: countries and capitals · tree and pragmatics
description: «the capital of ivory coast is abidjan obviously» What is right? Test 10 of lesson 13 «Africa: 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 10 · Africa: countries and capitals

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«the capital of ivory coast is abidjan obviously» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** capital, abidjan · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** abidjan

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This is test 10 of lesson 13 «Africa: 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/13-africa-countries-and-capitals/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:13-africa-countries-and-capitals:t10:1
# text = «the capital of ivory coast is abidjan obviously» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	ivory	ivory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	abidjan	abidjan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	obviously	obviously	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the capital of ivory coast | abidjan |  |  |  | obviously *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | abidjan |  |  |  |  | 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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Abidjan is the only capital

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:13-africa-countries-and-capitals:t10:o1:1
# text = Abidjan is the only capital
1	Abidjan	Abidjan	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	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The capital is Dakar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:13-africa-countries-and-capitals:t10:o2:1
# text = The capital is Dakar
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	Dakar	Dakar	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 | Dakar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It has no capital

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:13-africa-countries-and-capitals:t10:o3:1
# text = It has no capital
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | It | no capital |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capital=Patient |

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

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The official capital is Yamoussoukro, though much government work stays in Abidjan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:13-africa-countries-and-capitals:t10:o4:1
# text = The official capital is Yamoussoukro, though much government work stays in Abidjan
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	Yamoussoukro	Yamoussoukro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Abidjan	Abidjan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the official capital | Yamoussoukro |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stay** | present | much government work | Yamoussoukro *not said here* |  | Abidjan |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme yamoussoukro=Location |

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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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