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title: Why might a country close to the sea everywhere become a sea power? — The British Isles and the United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics
description: Why might a country close to the sea everywhere become a sea power? Test 10 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 10 · ★ · The British Isles and the United Kingdom

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Why might a country close to the sea everywhere become a sea power?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** country · **What happens:** become · **To what, where:** sea power

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 8 «The British Isles and the United Kingdom» 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/8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom:t10:1
# text = Why might a country close to the sea everywhere become a sea power?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
10	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present | a country | a sea power |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Every region has ports and sailors nearby

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom:t10:o1:1
# text = Every region has ports and sailors nearby
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ports	port	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	nearby	nearby	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | every region | ports and sailors |  |  |  | nearby *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent port=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Islands cannot have armies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom:t10:o2:1
# text = Islands cannot have armies
1	Islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | can | Islands | armies |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Its land is too poor for anything else to grow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom:t10:o3:1
# text = Its land is too poor for anything else to grow
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	_
8	else	else	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Its land |  |  |  |  | for anything; poor *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | to-infinitive | Its land *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sea power is always cheaper than any army

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom:t10:o4:1
# text = Sea power is always cheaper than any army
1	Sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Sea power |  |  |  |  | than any army; always, cheap *property* | tree rules |

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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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