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title: What would happen if Somaliland were recognised by the United Nations? — Africa: countries and capitals · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if Somaliland were recognised by the United Nations? Test 7 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 7 · Africa: countries and capitals

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What would happen if Somaliland were recognised by the United Nations?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** United Nations · **What happens:** happen, recognise · **To what, where:** Somaliland

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This is test 7 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:13-africa-countries-and-capitals:t7:1
# text = What would happen if Somaliland were recognised by the United Nations?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	Somaliland	Somaliland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	11	compound	_	_
11	Nations	Nation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **recognise** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive | the United Nations | Somaliland |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |

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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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Africa would have one more UN member country

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:13-africa-countries-and-capitals:t7:o1:1
# text = Africa would have one more UN member country
1	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
6	UN	UN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | Africa | one more member country |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Africa would have one country fewer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:13-africa-countries-and-capitals:t7:o2:1
# text = Africa would have one country fewer
1	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | Africa | one country |  |  |  | few *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Somaliland would join South Africa

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:13-africa-countries-and-capitals:t7:o3:1
# text = Somaliland would join South Africa
1	Somaliland	Somaliland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | would | Somaliland | South Africa |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent africa=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing could change, the number is fixed forever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:13-africa-countries-and-capitals:t7:o4:1
# text = Nothing could change, the number is fixed forever
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
9	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | could | Nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fix** | present · passive |  | the number |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: 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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