Exam question 3 · Borders: why they are where they are
State the extent of a coastal state's territorial waters as measured from its coastline.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, measure, extend · To what, where: extent, coastline, territorial waters
This is exam question 3 of lesson 31 «Borders: why they are where they are» 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 extent | det |
| 3 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 waters | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 state | det |
| 6 | coastal | coastal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 state | amod |
| 7 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 waters | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 state | case |
| 9 | territorial | territorial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 waters | amod |
| 10 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 extent | nmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 measured | mark |
| 12 | measured | measure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 State | advcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 coastline | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 coastline | nmod:poss |
| 15 | coastline | coastline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 measured | obl |
| 16 | . | . | 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 extent of a coastal state's territorial waters | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent extent=Topic | ||||
| 2 | measure | participle | you not said here | state's coastline | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | extend | a coastal state's territorial waters | nom extent «state transitive»: of=patient |
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
Forty-nine nautical miles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 nine | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 nine | punct |
| 3 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 miles | nummod |
| 4 | nautical | nautical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 miles | amod |
| 5 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Twelve nautical miles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 miles | nummod |
| 2 | nautical | nautical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 miles | amod |
| 3 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Two hundred nautical miles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 miles | nummod |
| 3 | nautical | nautical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 miles | amod |
| 4 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Three hundred and seventy leagues
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 leagues | nummod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 seventy | cc |
| 4 | seventy | seventy | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | conj |
| 5 | leagues | league | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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