Exam question 3 · The great rivers

State the number of states through or along whose borders the River Danube flows.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, River Danube · What happens: state, flow · To what, where: number, borders

This is exam question 3 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 states	case
5	states	state	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	through	through	ADP	_	10 borders	case
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 along	cc
8	along	along	ADP	_	6 through	conj
9	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	10 borders	nmod:poss
10	borders	border	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 State	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Danube	det
12	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Danube	compound
13	Danube	Danube	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 flows	nsubj
14	flows	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 borders	acl:relcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the number of states		borders			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	flow	present	the River Danube	borders not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location border=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

Two only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	1 Two	advmod

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

Option 2

Four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Twenty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Ten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	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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