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title: "I'm a country, I'm on two continents, my big city's split by a stra… — Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: "I'm a country, I'm on two continents, my big city's split by a strait less than 1 km wide, and my capital's NOT that city." Who? Test 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 an
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# Test 3 · ★★★ · Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★

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"I'm a country, I'm on two continents, my big city's split by a strait less than 1 km wide, and my capital's NOT that city." Who?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** I, strait, capital · **What happens:** be, split, not be · **To what, where:** country, two continents, big city, city

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This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 64 «Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★» 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/64-olympiad-which-country-am-i/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* "I'm a country, I'm on two continents, my big city's split by a strait less than 1 km wide, and my capital's NOT that city."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:64-olympiad-which-country-am-i:t3:1
# text = "I'm a country, I'm on two continents, my big city's split by a strait less than 1 km wide, and my capital's NOT that city."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	continents	continent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	split	split	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	strait	strait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	NOT	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
32	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | I | a country and that city |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  | two continents |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **split** *in a quote* | participle · passive | a strait | my big city |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | my capital | that city |  |  |  |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* Who?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:64-olympiad-which-country-am-i:t3:2
# text = Who?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Morocco

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:64-olympiad-which-country-am-i:t3:o1:1
# 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 2 {#o2}

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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:64-olympiad-which-country-am-i:t3:o2:1
# text = Denmark
1	Denmark	Denmark	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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Kazakhstan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:64-olympiad-which-country-am-i:t3:o3:1
# text = Kazakhstan
1	Kazakhstan	Kazakhstan	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}

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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:64-olympiad-which-country-am-i:t3:o4:1
# text = Turkey
1	Turkey	Turkey	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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