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title: Which is true about the United Kingdom? — The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is true about the United Kingdom? Test 6 · ★ 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 6 · ★ · The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand

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Which is true about the United Kingdom?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz:t6:1
# text = Which is true about the United Kingdom?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	7	flat	_	_
7	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | about the United Kingdom; true *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 {#o1}

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It includes Ireland and its capital is Dublin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz:t6:o1:1
# text = It includes Ireland and its capital is Dublin
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	includes	include	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **include** | present | It | Ireland and Dublin |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ireland=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | its capital | Dublin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It lies in the Southern Hemisphere

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz:t6:o2:1
# text = It lies in the Southern Hemisphere
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Southern	Southern	PROPN	NNP	_	6	compound	_	_
6	Hemisphere	hemisphere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | It |  |  | the Southern Hemisphere |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hemisphere=Location |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It includes Scotland and Wales and its capital is London

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz:t6:o3:1
# text = It includes Scotland and Wales and its capital is London
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	includes	include	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **include** | present | It | Scotland and Wales and London |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scotland=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | its capital | London |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It is the second-largest country in the world

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz:t6:o4:1
# text = It is the second-largest country in the world
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | the largest country |  | the world |  |  | 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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