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title: Why might some Irish people prefer a name such as "Britain and Irela… — The British Isles and the United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics
description: Why might some Irish people prefer a name such as "Britain and Ireland"? Test 2 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 2 · ★ · The British Isles and the United Kingdom

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Why might some Irish people prefer a name such as "Britain and Ireland"?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Irish people · **What happens:** prefer · **To what, where:** name

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom:t2:1
# text = Why might some Irish people prefer a name such as "Britain and Ireland"?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
4	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	prefer	prefer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prefer** | might | some Irish people | a name |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus |

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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 {#o1}

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It is shorter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom:t2:o1:1
# text = It is shorter
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | short *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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It is the name used in the Bible for the islands

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom:t2:o2:1
# text = It is the name used in the Bible for the islands
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | the name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | participle |  | the name *not said here* |  | the Bible |  | for the islands | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It does not suggest Ireland belongs to Britain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom:t2:o3:1
# text = It does not suggest Ireland belongs to Britain
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	suggest	suggest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present · do-support | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **belong** | present | Ireland |  | Britain |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It includes France too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom:t2:o4:1
# text = It includes France too
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	includes	include	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **include** | present | It | France |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent france=Theme |

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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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