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title: which state is way up north next to canada n is the biggest — The United States and its states · tree and pragmatics
description: which state is way up north next to canada n is the biggest Test 11 of lesson 44 «The United States and its states» of the world 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 11 · The United States and its states

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which state is way up north next to canada n is the biggest

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** state · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** way

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This is test 11 of lesson 44 «The United States and its states» of the world 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/world/44-the-usa-and-its-states/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:44-the-usa-and-its-states:t11:1
# text = which state is way up north next to canada n is the biggest
1	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	up	up	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	north	north	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	next	next	ADV	RB	_	4	acl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	n	n	NOUN	NN	_	7	obl	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | which state | way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | big *property* | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Alaska

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:44-the-usa-and-its-states:t11:o1:1
# text = Alaska
1	Alaska	Alaska	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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Hawaii

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:44-the-usa-and-its-states:t11:o2:1
# text = Hawaii
1	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Florida

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:44-the-usa-and-its-states:t11:o3:1
# text = Florida
1	Florida	Florida	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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Texas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:44-the-usa-and-its-states:t11:o4:1
# text = Texas
1	Texas	Texas	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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