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title: My uncle moved from Kerala to Dubai for a job. What is that called? — Population and cities · tree and pragmatics
description: My uncle moved from Kerala to Dubai for a job. What is that called? Test 10 of lesson 24 «Population and cities» 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 · Population and cities

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My uncle moved from Kerala to Dubai for a job. What is that called?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** uncle · **What happens:** move, call · **To what, where:** Dubai, Kerala, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 of lesson 24 «Population and cities» 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/24-population-and-cities/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* My uncle moved from Kerala to Dubai for a job.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:24-population-and-cities:t10:1
# text = My uncle moved from Kerala to Dubai for a job.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Kerala	Kerala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Dubai	Dubai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | past | My uncle |  | Dubai | Kerala |  | for a job | vn slide-11.2 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from kerala=Initial\_Location to dubai=Destination |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is that called?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:24-population-and-cities:t10:2
# text = What is that called?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present · passive |  | that |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Result |

## The options {#options}

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

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Migration

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:24-population-and-cities:t10:o1:1
# text = Migration
1	Migration	migration	NOUN	NN	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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Colonisation

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:24-population-and-cities:t10:o2:1
# text = Colonisation
1	Colonisation	colonisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Population density

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:24-population-and-cities:t10:o3:1
# text = Population density
1	Population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	density	density	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Urban sprawl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:24-population-and-cities:t10:o4:1
# text = Urban sprawl
1	Urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sprawl	sprawl	NOUN	NN	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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