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title: «capital of brazil? rio. duh.» What is right? — Latin America and the Caribbean · tree and pragmatics
description: «capital of brazil? rio. duh.» What is right? Test 3 · ★★ of lesson 14 «Latin America and the Caribbean» 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 3 · ★★ · Latin America and the Caribbean

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«capital of brazil? rio. duh.» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 14 «Latin America and the Caribbean» 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/14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «capital of brazil? rio. duh.»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean:t3:1
# text = «capital of brazil? rio. duh.»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	brazil	brazil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
6	rio	rio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
8	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* What is right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean:t3:2
# text = What is right?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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It has been Brasília since 1960; Rio was the capital before that

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean:t3:o1:1
# text = It has been Brasília since 1960; Rio was the capital before that
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	cop	_	_
4	Brasília	Brasília	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	since	since	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1960	1960	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	Rio	Rio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present · perfect | It | Brasília |  |  | since 1960; before that |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Rio | the capital |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It is São Paulo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean:t3:o2:1
# text = It is São Paulo
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	São	São	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	Paulo	Paulo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It is still Rio de Janeiro, as it has been since the Portuguese king came

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean:t3:o3:1
# text = It is still Rio de Janeiro, as it has been since the Portuguese king came
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	Rio	Rio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	Janeiro	Janeiro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	cop	_	_
12	since	since	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | Rio Janeiro |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present · perfect | it |  |  |  |  | as the Portuguese king | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | Rio Janeiro |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It is Buenos Aires

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean:t3:o4:1
# text = It is Buenos Aires
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	Buenos	Buenos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	Aires	Aires	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | Buenos |  |  |  |  | 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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