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title: A boy in Hawaii wants to visit the largest state by car. Why can he… — The United States and its states · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Hawaii wants to visit the largest state by car. Why can he not drive there? Test 2 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 wrong.
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# Test 2 · The United States and its states

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A boy in Hawaii wants to visit the largest state by car. Why can he not drive there?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** want, visit, not drive · **To what, where:** largest state

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This is test 2 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A boy in Hawaii wants to visit the largest state by car.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:44-the-usa-and-its-states:t2:1
# text = A boy in Hawaii wants to visit the largest state by car.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | a boy in Hawaii |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **visit** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a boy in Hawaii *not said here* | the largest state |  |  |  | by car | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Co-Agent |

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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:* Why can he not drive there?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:44-the-usa-and-its-states:t2:2
# text = Why can he not drive there?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **drive** | can | boy |  |  | there |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The largest state is Texas, which is too far

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:44-the-usa-and-its-states:t2:o1:1
# text = The largest state is Texas, which is too far
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	Texas	Texas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the largest state | Texas |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Texas |  |  |  |  | far *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Cars are not allowed in Hawaii

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:44-the-usa-and-its-states:t2:o2:1
# text = Cars are not allowed in Hawaii
1	Cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **allow** | present · passive |  | Cars |  | Hawaii |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Alaska has no roads at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:44-the-usa-and-its-states:t2:o3:1
# text = Alaska has no roads at all
1	Alaska	Alaska	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Alaska | no roads |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient |

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

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Hawaii is a group of islands in the middle of the Pacific

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:44-the-usa-and-its-states:t2:o4:1
# text = Hawaii is a group of islands in the middle of the Pacific
1	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Hawaii | a group |  |  |  | of islands in the middle of the Pacific | 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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