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title: A video game shows the White House as the British king's castle. Wha… — President and Prime Minister, White Ho… · tree and pragmatics
description: A video game shows the White House as the British king's castle. What should be fixed? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 5 «President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 8 · ★ · President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street

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A video game shows the White House as the British king's castle. What should be fixed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** video game · **What happens:** show, fix · **To what, where:** White House

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 5 «President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street» of the politics 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/politics/5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A video game shows the White House as the British king's castle.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street:t8:1
# text = A video game shows the White House as the British king's castle.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	White	White	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | a video game |  | the White House |  |  | as the British king's castle | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent house=Recipient |

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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:* What should be fixed?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street:t8:2
# text = What should be fixed?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | should · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The White House belongs to the Canadian governor general

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street:t8:o1:1
# text = The White House belongs to the Canadian governor general
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	White	White	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	general	general	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | present | the White House |  |  |  |  | to the Canadian governor general | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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The White House is where the prime minister sleeps

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street:t8:o2:1
# text = The White House is where the prime minister sleeps
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	White	White	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	prime	prime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sleeps	sleep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the White House |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sleep** | present | the prime minister |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing, the British king lives there in summer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street:t8:o3:1
# text = Nothing, the British king lives there in summer
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | Nothing |  |  | there | summer |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The White House is the US president's home and office

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street:t8:o4:1
# text = The White House is the US president's home and office
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	White	White	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the White House | the US president's home and office |  |  |  |  | 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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