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title: Why did Britain want Gibraltar? — Odd places: microstates, enclaves and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did Britain want Gibraltar? Test 6 · ★★ 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 right.
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# Test 6 · ★★ · Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands

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Why did Britain want Gibraltar?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Britain · **What happens:** want · **To what, where:** Gibraltar

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This is test 6 · ★★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:39-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands:t6:1
# text = Why did Britain want Gibraltar?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Gibraltar	Gibraltar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past · do-support | Britain | Gibraltar |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gibraltar=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 {#o1}

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It was the birthplace of Queen Victoria

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:39-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands:t6:o1:1
# text = It was the birthplace of Queen Victoria
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	birthplace	birthplace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	Victoria	Victoria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | It | the birthplace |  |  |  | of Queen | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It had huge gold and silver mines deep inside the Rock, worked since Roman times

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:39-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands:t6:o2:1
# text = It had huge gold and silver mines deep inside the Rock, worked since Roman times
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	mines	mine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	worked	work	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
14	since	since	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | It | huge gold and silver mines |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | participle |  | the Rock *not said here* |  |  | time |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It was the biggest farmland in Europe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:39-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands:t6:o3:1
# text = It was the biggest farmland in Europe
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	farmland	farmland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | It | the biggest farmland |  | Europe |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It guards the narrow strait between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:39-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands:t6:o4:1
# text = It guards the narrow strait between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	guards	guard	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	strait	strait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guard** | present | It | the narrow strait |  |  |  | between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strait=Beneficiary |

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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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