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title: Which country's bullet trains are famous for being on time? — Trains and the Underground · tree and pragmatics
description: Which country's bullet trains are famous for being on time? Test 11 of lesson 21 «Trains and the Underground» of the technology 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 11 · Trains and the Underground

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Which country's bullet trains are famous for being on time?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bullet trains · **What happens:** be

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This is test 11 of lesson 21 «Trains and the Underground» of the technology 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/technology/21-trains-and-the-underground/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:21-trains-and-the-underground:t11:1
# text = Which country's bullet trains are famous for being on time?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	bullet	bullet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	trains	train	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | which country's bullet trains |  |  |  |  | famous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  | for time |  | tree rules |

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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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Egypt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:21-trains-and-the-underground:t11:o1:1
# text = Egypt
1	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Canada

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:21-trains-and-the-underground:t11:o2:1
# text = Canada
1	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Japan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:21-trains-and-the-underground:t11:o3:1
# text = Japan
1	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Brazil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:21-trains-and-the-underground:t11:o4:1
# text = Brazil
1	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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