Exam question 2 · Population and cities
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises population density?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: population density
This is exam question 2 of lesson 24 «Population and cities» 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 characterises | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 statements | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 statements | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 statements | amod |
| 5 | statements | statement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 characterises | obl |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 accurately | advmod |
| 7 | accurately | accurately | ADV | _ | 8 characterises | advmod |
| 8 | characterises | characteris | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 density | compound |
| 10 | density | density | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 characterises | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 characterises | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | characteris | present | population density | of the following statements; accurately 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 · ← Mova's choice
The proportion of inhabitants residing in towns and cities
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 proportion | det |
| 2 | proportion | proportion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 inhabitants | case |
| 4 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 proportion | nmod |
| 5 | residing | reside | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 inhabitants | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 towns | case |
| 7 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 residing | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cities | cc |
| 9 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 towns | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reside | gerund | inhabitants not said here | towns and cities | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The number of inhabitants per square kilometre of territory
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 number | det |
| 2 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 inhabitants | case |
| 4 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 number | nmod |
| 5 | per | per | ADP | _ | 7 kilometre | case |
| 6 | square | square | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 kilometre | amod |
| 7 | kilometre | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 inhabitants | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 territory | case |
| 9 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kilometre | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The aggregate number of inhabitants of a sovereign state
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 number | det |
| 2 | aggregate | aggregate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 number | compound |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 inhabitants | case |
| 5 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 state | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 state | det |
| 8 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 state | compound |
| 9 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 inhabitants | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The average age of the inhabitants of a territory
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 age | det |
| 2 | average | average | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 age | amod |
| 3 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 inhabitants | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 inhabitants | det |
| 6 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 age | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 territory | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 territory | det |
| 9 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 inhabitants | nmod |
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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