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description: If Britain left Gibraltar tomorrow, which country would most likely take it over? Test 5 · ★★ 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 choic
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# Test 5 · ★★ · Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands

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If Britain left Gibraltar tomorrow, which country would most likely take it over?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Britain, country · **What happens:** leave, take over · **To what, where:** Gibraltar tomorrow

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This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 39 «Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands» 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/39-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:39-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands:t5:1
# text = If Britain left Gibraltar tomorrow, which country would most likely take it over?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Gibraltar	Gibraltar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
8	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
11	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | Britain |  |  |  | tomorrow |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take over** | would | country | Gibraltar tomorrow |  |  |  | likely *property* | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Portugal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:39-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands:t5:o1:1
# text = Portugal
1	Portugal	Portugal	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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Spain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:39-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands:t5:o2:1
# text = Spain
1	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	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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Morocco

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:39-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands:t5:o3:1
# text = Morocco
1	Morocco	Morocco	PROPN	NNP	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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Argentina

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:39-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands:t5:o4:1
# text = Argentina
1	Argentina	Argentina	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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