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description: «bolivia's capital is sucre — no wait, la paz? which» Which is the best answer? Test 9 · ★★ 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 9 · ★★ · Latin America and the Caribbean

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«bolivia's capital is sucre — no wait, la paz? which» Which is the best answer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** capital, sucre · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** sucre, best answer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean:t9:1
# text = «bolivia's capital is sucre — no wait, la paz? which» Which is the best answer?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	bolivia	bolivia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	sucre	sucre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	wait	wait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	compound	_	_
12	paz	paz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
16	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | bolivia's capital | sucre and the best answer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *speech: assert* | present | sucre and the best answer | the best answer |  |  |  |  | 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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Only La Paz is a capital

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean:t9:o1:1
# text = Only La Paz is a capital
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	La	La	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	Paz	Paz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	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 | La | a capital |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Sucre is the official capital and La Paz is where the government sits

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean:t9:o2:1
# text = Sucre is the official capital and La Paz is where the government sits
1	Sucre	sucre	NOUN	NN	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	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	La	La	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	Paz	Paz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Sucre | the official capital |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | La |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit** | present | the government |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only Santa Cruz is a capital, as it is the biggest city

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean:t9:o3:1
# text = Only Santa Cruz is a capital, as it is the biggest city
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	Santa	Santa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	Cruz	Cruz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Santa | a capital |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | capital | the biggest city |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Bolivia has no capital

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean:t9:o4:1
# text = Bolivia has no capital
1	Bolivia	Bolivia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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 | Bolivia | no capital |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capital=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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