Exam question 4 · The Arctic and Antarctica

State the approximate proportion of the world's fresh water retained within the Antarctic ice sheet.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: retain · To what, where: fresh water

This is exam question 4 of lesson 15 «The Arctic and Antarctica» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 proportion	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 proportion	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 proportion	amod
4	proportion	proportion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	10 water	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 world	det
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 water	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 world	case
9	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 water	amod
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 proportion	nmod
11	retained	retain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 water	acl
12	within	within	ADP	_	16 sheet	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sheet	det
14	Antarctic	Antarctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 sheet	compound
15	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sheet	compound
16	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 retained	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 proportion	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	retain	participle		the world's fresh water not said here				within the Antarctic ice sheet	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 · ← Mova's choice

Approximately one per cent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 cent	nummod
3	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cent	compound
4	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Approximately one hundred per cent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 hundred	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 cent	nummod
4	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cent	compound
5	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Approximately seven per cent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	4 cent	advmod
2	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 cent	nummod
3	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cent	compound
4	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Approximately seventy per cent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 seventy	advmod
2	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 cent	nummod
3	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cent	compound
4	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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