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title: Your cousin says the UN only argues and never does anything useful.… — Today's world: the UN, the EU and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your cousin says the UN only argues and never does anything useful. Which fact answers him? Test 11 of lesson 38 «Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 11 · Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth

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Your cousin says the UN only argues and never does anything useful. Which fact answers him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cousin, UN, fact · **What happens:** say, argue, not do, answer · **To what, where:** anything, UN · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 of lesson 38 «Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth» 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/38-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your cousin says the UN only argues and never does anything useful.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:38-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth:t11:1
# text = Your cousin says the UN only argues and never does anything useful.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	UN	UN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	argues	argue	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	_
12	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Your cousin |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | the UN |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **do** | present | the UN *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |

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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:* Which fact answers him?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:38-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth:t11:2
# text = Which fact answers him?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answers	answer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | which fact |  | UN |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The UN drew the Tordesillas line

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:38-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth:t11:o1:1
# text = The UN drew the Tordesillas line
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	UN	UN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Tordesillas	Tordesillas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | the UN | the Tordesillas line |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The WHO helped wipe out smallpox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:38-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth:t11:o2:1
# text = The WHO helped wipe out smallpox
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	WHO	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	wipe	wipe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **wipe out** | infinitive |  | smallpox |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent smallpox=Source |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The UN built the Great Wall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:38-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth:t11:o3:1
# text = The UN built the Great Wall
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	UN	UN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Wall	Wall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | the UN | the Great Wall |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The UN ended the Hundred Years' War

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:38-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth:t11:o4:1
# text = The UN ended the Hundred Years' War
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	UN	UN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	Years	Year	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | past | the UN | the Hundred Years's War |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector war=Eventuality |

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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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