Exam question 2 · Projections: why Greenland looks huge

Determine the factor by which the area of Africa exceeds that of Greenland.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, area · What happens: determine, exceed · To what, where: factor

This is exam question 2 of lesson 3 «Projections: why Greenland looks huge» 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 factor	det
3	factor	factor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 exceeds	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 area	det
7	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 exceeds	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Africa	case
9	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 area	nmod
10	exceeds	exceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 factor	acl:relcl
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 Greenland	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Greenland	case
13	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 exceeds	parataxis
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the factor					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent factor=Topic
2	exceed	present	the area of Africa					by the factor	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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

Approximately two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Approximately one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Approximately fourteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 fourteen	advmod
2	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

Approximately one hundred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 hundred	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	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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