Exam question 2 · The great rivers

Identify the body of water into which the River Volga discharges.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify · To what, where: body, Volga discharges

This is exam question 2 of lesson 16 «The great rivers» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 body	det
3	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 body	nmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	11 discharges	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 discharges	nsubj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 discharges	det
9	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Volga	compound
10	Volga	Volga	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 discharges	compound
11	discharges	discharge	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Identify	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the body of water		the Volga discharges			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent body=Theme

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

The Black Sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sea	det
2	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Sea	compound
3	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The Arctic Ocean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Ocean	det
2	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Ocean	compound
3	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Caspian Sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sea	det
2	Caspian	Caspian	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Sea	compound
3	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The Baltic Sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sea	det
2	Baltic	Baltic	PROPN	_	3 Sea	compound
3	Sea	Sea	PROPN	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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