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title: Identify the sovereign state of least territorial extent in the world. — Odd places: microstates, enclaves and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the sovereign state of least territorial extent in the world. Exam question 1 of lesson 39 «Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands» 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 w
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# Exam question 1 · Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands

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Identify the sovereign state of least territorial extent in the world.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify · **To what, where:** sovereign state

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 39 «Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/39-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:39-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands:e1:1
# text = Identify the sovereign state of least territorial extent in the world.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
7	territorial	territorial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the sovereign state of least territorial extent in the world |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent state=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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Andorra

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:39-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands:e1:o1:1
# text = Andorra
1	Andorra	Andorra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Vatican City

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:39-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands:e1:o2:1
# text = Vatican City
1	Vatican	Vatican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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San Marino

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:39-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands:e1:o3:1
# text = San Marino
1	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Marino	Marino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Monaco

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:39-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands:e1:o4:1
# text = Monaco
1	Monaco	Monaco	PROPN	NNP	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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