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title: capital of oz, is it sydney — The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and… · tree and pragmatics
description: capital of oz, is it sydney Test 11 · ★ of lesson 45 «The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand» 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 UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand

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capital of oz, is it sydney

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** capital · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** sydney

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 45 «The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand» 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/45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz:t11:1
# text = capital of oz, is it sydney
1	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	oz	Oz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sydney	sydney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | capital of oz | sydney |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Yes, Sydney is the capital

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz:t11:o1:1
# text = Yes, Sydney is the capital
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Sydney | the capital |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, it is Melbourne

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz:t11:o2:1
# text = No, it is Melbourne
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | Melbourne |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, it is Wellington

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz:t11:o3:1
# text = No, it is Wellington
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	Wellington	Wellington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | Wellington |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, it is Canberra, though Sydney is the largest city

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz:t11:o4:1
# text = No, it is Canberra, though Sydney is the largest city
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	Canberra	Canberra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | Canberra and the largest city |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Sydney | the largest city |  |  |  |  | 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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