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title: Determine which of the following sovereign states constitutes the so… — Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Determine which of the following sovereign states constitutes the sole country of South-East Asia never subjected to European colonial rule. Exam question 2 of lesson 64 «Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t
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# Exam question 2 · Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★

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Determine which of the following sovereign states constitutes the sole country of South-East Asia never subjected to European colonial rule.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, South East · **What happens:** determine, follow, constitute, not subject · **To what, where:** sole country

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 64 «Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★» 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/64-olympiad-which-country-am-i/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:64-olympiad-which-country-am-i:e2:1
# text = Determine which of the following sovereign states constitutes the sole country of South-East Asia never subjected to European colonial rule.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	case	_	_
6	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
8	constitutes	constitute	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	sole	sole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	subjected	subject	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **constitute** | present | you *not said here* | the sole country of South East |  |  |  | of the sovereign states | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **subject** | past | South East *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to European colonial rule | 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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Indonesia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:64-olympiad-which-country-am-i:e2:o1:1
# text = Indonesia
1	Indonesia	Indonesia	PROPN	NNP	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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Vietnam

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:64-olympiad-which-country-am-i:e2:o2:1
# text = Vietnam
1	Vietnam	Vietnam	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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Malaysia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:64-olympiad-which-country-am-i:e2:o3:1
# text = Malaysia
1	Malaysia	Malaysia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Thailand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:64-olympiad-which-country-am-i:e2:o4:1
# text = Thailand
1	Thailand	Thailand	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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