Test 7 · ★★ · Latin America and the Caribbean

«so chile is like 4000 km long and like 5 km wide lol» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: chile · What happens: be · To what, where: 5 km · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 14 «Latin America and the Caribbean» of the geography 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 long	punct
2	so	so	ADV	_	8 long	advmod
3	chile	chile	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 long	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 long	cop
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 km	case
6	4000	4000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 km	nummod
7	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 long	obl
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wide	cc
10	like	like	INTJ	_	12 km	discourse
11	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 km	nummod
12	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 wide	obl:unmarked
13	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 long	conj
14	lol	lol	INTJ	_	8 long	discourse
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 long	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 long	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 long	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	chile		like 4000 km; long property	tree rules
2	be in a quote		chile not said here	5 km		tree rules
3	is	present			right property	tree rules

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

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

It is about 4,300 km long and on average less than 200 km wide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 long	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 long	cop
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 4,300	advmod
4	4,300	4,300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 km	nummod
5	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 long	obl:unmarked
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 average	cc
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 average	case
9	average	average	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 long	conj
10	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	12 200	advmod
11	than	than	ADP	_	10 less	fixed
12	200	200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 km	nummod
13	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 wide	obl:unmarked
14	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 long	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		4,300 km obl:unmarked; long property	tree rules
2	be					tree rules
3	be			200 km		tree rules

Option 2

It is perfectly round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 round	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 round	cop
3	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	4 round	advmod
4	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					perfectly, round property	tree rules

Option 3

It is about 4,300 km wide and only 5 km long, like a line

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wide	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wide	cop
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 4,300	advmod
4	4,300	4,300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 km	nummod
5	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wide	obl:unmarked
6	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 long	cc
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 5	advmod
9	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 km	nummod
10	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 long	obl:unmarked
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wide	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 line	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 line	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 line	det
15	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wide	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					4,300 km obl:unmarked; wide property	tree rules
2	be			5 km					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It is 200 km long and 4,300 km wide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 long	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 long	cop
3	200	200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 km	nummod
4	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 long	obl:unmarked
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wide	cc
7	4,300	4,300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 km	nummod
8	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wide	obl:unmarked
9	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 long	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					200 km obl:unmarked; long property	tree rules
2	be			4,300 km					tree rules

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