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title: "Yeah nah, Thailand was ruled by Britain like the rest round there,"… — Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: "Yeah nah, Thailand was ruled by Britain like the rest round there," says a mate in Brisbane. Right? Test 9 · ★★★ 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; Mova's choi
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# Test 9 · ★★★ · Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
"Yeah nah, Thailand was ruled by Britain like the rest round there," says a mate in Brisbane. Right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Britain, mate · **What happens:** rule, say · **To what, where:** Thailand · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* "Yeah nah, Thailand was ruled by Britain like the rest round there," says a mate in Brisbane.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:64-olympiad-which-country-am-i:t9:1
# text = "Yeah nah, Thailand was ruled by Britain like the rest round there," says a mate in Brisbane.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Thailand	Thailand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	ruled	rule	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	ccomp	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	round	round	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
17	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Brisbane	Brisbane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** *in a quote* | past · passive | Britain | Thailand |  | there |  | like the rest | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a mate in Brisbane |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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:* Right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:64-olympiad-which-country-am-i:t9:2
# text = Right?
1	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, Thailand was British until 1965

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:64-olympiad-which-country-am-i:t9:o1:1
# text = Yes, Thailand was British until 1965
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Thailand	Thailand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	until	until	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1965	1965	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Thailand |  |  |  | until 1965 | british *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, Thailand was never colonised by Europeans

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:64-olympiad-which-country-am-i:t9:o2:1
# text = No, Thailand was never colonised by Europeans
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Thailand	Thailand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	colonised	colonis	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Europeans	European	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **colonis** | past · passive | Europeans | Thailand |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, Thailand was ruled by France

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:64-olympiad-which-country-am-i:t9:o3:1
# text = Yes, Thailand was ruled by France
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Thailand	Thailand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	ruled	rule	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | past · passive | France | Thailand |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, Thailand was ruled by Spain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:64-olympiad-which-country-am-i:t9:o4:1
# text = No, Thailand was ruled by Spain
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Thailand	Thailand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	ruled	rule	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | past · passive | Spain | Thailand |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result |

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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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