--- title: Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★ — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★», a lesson of the geography course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A "which country am I?" chain gives clues one by one, and each clue crosses some countries off the list until only one is left, just l --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/64-olympiad-which-country-am-i/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★ # Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★ Lesson 64 of the geography course of Mova's primary school: 14 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/64-olympiad-which-country-am-i/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/64-olympiad-which-country-am-i/0/) — A "which country am I?" chain gives clues one by one, and each clue crosses some countries off the list until only one is left, just like a detective ruling out suspects. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/64-olympiad-which-country-am-i/1/) — The trick is to start from the sharpest clue: "my capital was chosen in 1923 and my biggest city sits on two continents" points straight at Turkey, while "I am in Asia" alone leaves dozens. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/64-olympiad-which-country-am-i/3/) — Other chains join two lessons: a clock clue ("my time is UTC plus 5 hours 45 minutes") and a mountain clue ("the highest peak on Earth is on my border") together can only mean Nepal. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/64-olympiad-which-country-am-i/5/) — Turkey's capital is Ankara, chosen in 1923, while its largest city, Istanbul, lies on both sides of the Bosporus, in Europe and in Asia. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/64-olympiad-which-country-am-i/6/) — Australia's capital is Canberra, built as a compromise between Sydney and Melbourne, and the UAE's capital is Abu Dhabi, not Dubai. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/64-olympiad-which-country-am-i/7/) — Nepal uses UTC plus 5 hours 45 minutes, its capital is Kathmandu, and Mount Everest stands on its border with China. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/64-olympiad-which-country-am-i/8/) — Russia is the largest country in the world, uses 11 time zones, and its Kaliningrad region lies cut off between Poland and Lithuania. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/64-olympiad-which-country-am-i/9/) — Uzbekistan and Liechtenstein are the only two doubly landlocked countries, and Samarkand and Bukhara, great Silk Road cities, are in Uzbekistan. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/64-olympiad-which-country-am-i/11/) — South Africa has three capitals, Pretoria, Cape Town and Bloemfontein, and the whole country of Lesotho lies inside it. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/64-olympiad-which-country-am-i/12/) — Bolivia is named after Simón Bolívar; its official capital is Sucre, while its government sits in La Paz, the highest seat of government in the world. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/64-olympiad-which-country-am-i/13/) — Thailand, with its capital Bangkok, is the only country in South-East Asia never colonised by a European power. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/64-olympiad-which-country-am-i/14/) — The Philippines, capital Manila, are named after King Philip II of Spain, and Spain ruled them from 1565 to 1898. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/64-olympiad-which-country-am-i/16/) — Mongolia is a huge landlocked country with about 3.5 million people, and its capital Ulaanbaatar is the coldest national capital on Earth on average. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/64-olympiad-which-country-am-i/17/) — Ukraine is the largest country wholly in Europe, because only about a quarter of Russia's land is in Europe. - ← previous: [Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/63-olympiad-maps-directions-and-clocks/) - ↑ back to [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/)