--- title: A state possesses three capital cities and wholly encloses another s… — Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: A state possesses three capital cities and wholly encloses another sovereign state. Ascertain its identity. Exam question 3 of lesson 64 «Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/64-olympiad-which-country-am-i/e3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/) / [Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/64-olympiad-which-country-am-i/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★ A state possesses three capital cities and wholly encloses another sovereign state. Ascertain its identity. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** state, you · **What happens:** possess, enclose, ascertain · **To what, where:** three capital cities, sovereign state, identity This is exam question 3 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/#e3). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A state possesses three capital cities and wholly encloses another sovereign state. ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:64-olympiad-which-country-am-i:e3:1 # text = A state possesses three capital cities and wholly encloses another sovereign state. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 possesses possess VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 5 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 wholly wholly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 encloses enclose VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 12 det _ _ 11 sovereign sovereign NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **possess** | present | a state | three capital cities | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot city=Theme | | 2 | **enclose** | present | a state *not said here* | another sovereign state | | | | wholly *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme state=Co-Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* Ascertain its identity. ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:64-olympiad-which-country-am-i:e3:2 # text = Ascertain its identity. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 identity identity NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | state's identity | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent identity=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} South Africa ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:64-olympiad-which-country-am-i:e3:o1:1 # text = South Africa 1 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Nigeria ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:64-olympiad-which-country-am-i:e3:o2:1 # text = Nigeria 1 Nigeria Nigeria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Italy ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:64-olympiad-which-country-am-i:e3:o3:1 # text = Italy 1 Italy Italy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Switzerland ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:64-olympiad-which-country-am-i:e3:o4:1 # text = Switzerland 1 Switzerland Switzerland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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