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title: «ok which city is egypt's capital, cairo or alexandria, quick» What… — Africa: countries and capitals · tree and pragmatics
description: «ok which city is egypt's capital, cairo or alexandria, quick» What is right? Test 6 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 6 · Africa: countries and capitals

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«ok which city is egypt's capital, cairo or alexandria, quick» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ok city, cairo · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** capital · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:13-africa-countries-and-capitals:t6:1
# text = «ok which city is egypt's capital, cairo or alexandria, quick» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	ok	ok	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	egypt	egypt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	cairo	cairo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	alexandria	alexandria	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | which ok city | egypt's capital and cairo or alexandria |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | cairo or alexandria |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Cairo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:13-africa-countries-and-capitals:t6:o1:1
# text = Cairo
1	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Giza, by the pyramids

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:13-africa-countries-and-capitals:t6:o2:1
# text = Giza, by the pyramids
1	Giza	Giza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Luxor, the old Thebes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:13-africa-countries-and-capitals:t6:o3:1
# text = Luxor, the old Thebes
1	Luxor	Luxor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Thebes	Thebes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Alexandria

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:13-africa-countries-and-capitals:t6:o4:1
# text = Alexandria
1	Alexandria	Alexandria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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