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description: Identify the status of the Bailiwick of Jersey in respect of the United Kingdom. Exam question 3 of lesson 8 «The British Isles and the United Kingdom» 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 wron
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# Exam question 3 · The British Isles and the United Kingdom

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Identify the status of the Bailiwick of Jersey in respect of the United Kingdom.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, respect · **To what, where:** status, respect, United Kingdom

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 8 «The British Isles and the United Kingdom» 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/8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom:e3:1
# text = Identify the status of the Bailiwick of Jersey in respect of the United Kingdom.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	status	status	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Bailiwick	Bailiwick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Jersey	Jersey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	14	flat	_	_
14	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the status of the Bailiwick of Jersey |  | respect of the United Kingdom |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent status=Theme |
| 2 | **respect** |  |  | the United Kingdom |  |  |  |  | nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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A region of Scotland

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom:e3:o1:1
# text = A region of Scotland
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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A Crown Dependency, not forming part of the United Kingdom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom:e3:o2:1
# text = A Crown Dependency, not forming part of the United Kingdom
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Dependency	dependency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	forming	form	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	11	flat	_	_
11	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **form** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A county of England

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom:e3:o3:1
# text = A county of England
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	county	county	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A British Overseas Territory in the Atlantic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom:e3:o4:1
# text = A British Overseas Territory in the Atlantic
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Overseas	Overseas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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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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