Exam question 3 · Mountains and highlands
Ascertain the mountain range within which all fourteen summits exceeding eight thousand metres are situated.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, fourteen summits · What happens: ascertain, exceed, situate · To what, where: mountain range, thousand metres, fourteen summits
This is exam question 3 of lesson 17 «Mountains and highlands» 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 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 range | det |
| 3 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 range | compound |
| 4 | range | range | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 5 | within | within | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 situated | obl |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 summits | det |
| 8 | fourteen | fourteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 summits | nummod |
| 9 | summits | summit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 situated | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | exceeding | exceed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 summits | acl |
| 11 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 thousand | compound |
| 12 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 metres | nummod |
| 13 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 exceeding | obj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 situated | aux:pass |
| 15 | situated | situate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 range | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | the mountain range | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent range=Topic | ||||
| 2 | exceed | gerund | all fourteen summits not said here | thousand metres | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot metre=Theme | ||||
| 3 | situate | present · passive | all fourteen summits | within the mountain range | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=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 Andes of South America
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Andes | det |
| 2 | Andes | Ande | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 America | case |
| 4 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 America | compound |
| 5 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Andes | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The Himalaya and Karakoram ranges of Asia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ranges | det |
| 2 | Himalaya | Himalaya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ranges | compound |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Karakoram | cc |
| 4 | Karakoram | Karakoram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Himalaya | conj |
| 5 | ranges | range | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Asia | case |
| 7 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ranges | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Rocky Mountains of North America
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Mountains | det |
| 2 | Rocky | Rocky | PROPN | _ | 3 Mountains | compound |
| 3 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 America | case |
| 5 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 America | compound |
| 6 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Mountains | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Alps of Europe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Alps | det |
| 2 | Alps | Alp | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Europe | case |
| 4 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Alps | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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