Test 5 · ★★ · Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the othe…

«the bosporus is like 50 km wide right» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: bosporus, 50 km · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors» 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	_	7 km	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bosporus	det
3	bosporus	bosporus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 km	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 km	cop
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 km	case
6	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 km	nummod
7	km	km	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 right	nsubj
8	wide	wide	ADV	_	7 km	advmod
9	right	right	ADV	_	13 right	advmod
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 right	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 right	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 right	cop
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the bosporus					like 50 km; wide property	tree rules
2	is	present	50 km					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

It is about 50 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 km	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 km	cop
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 50	advmod
4	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 km	nummod
5	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 km	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	50 km					tree rules

Option 2

It is about 800 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 km	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 km	cop
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 800	advmod
4	800	800	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 km	nummod
5	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 km	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	800 km					tree rules

Option 3

It is dry land

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 land	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 land	cop
3	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 land	amod
4	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	dry land					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is less than 1 km wide at its narrowest

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	3 less	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 less	cop
3	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 wide	advmod
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 km	case
5	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 km	nummod
6	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wide	obl:unmarked
7	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 narrowest	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 narrowest	nmod:poss
10	narrowest	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 wide	obl

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

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