Exam question 2 · Volcanoes: how and where

Identify the principal location of the majority of the Earth's volcanoes.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify · To what, where: principal location

This is exam question 2 of lesson 46 «Volcanoes: how and where» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 location	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 location	amod
4	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 majority	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 majority	det
7	majority	majority	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 location	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 volcanoes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Earth	det
10	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 volcanoes	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Earth	case
12	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 majority	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal location of the majority of the Earth's volcanoes					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent location=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 right answer

Along the boundaries of the lithospheric plates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Along	along	ADP	_	3 boundaries	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boundaries	det
3	boundaries	boundary	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 plates	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 plates	det
6	lithospheric	lithospheric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plates	amod
7	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 boundaries	nmod

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

Option 2

Exclusively within the polar regions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	5 regions	advmod
2	within	within	ADP	_	5 regions	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 regions	det
4	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 regions	amod
5	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Within the interior of the continents far from any boundary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Within	within	ADP	_	3 interior	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 interior	det
3	interior	interior	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 continents	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 continents	det
6	continents	continent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 interior	nmod
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 boundary	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 boundary	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 boundary	det
10	boundary	boundary	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 continents	nmod

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

Option 4

Exclusively along the equator

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	root	root
2	along	along	ADP	_	4 equator	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 equator	det
4	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Exclusively	obl

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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