Exam question 1 · Continents and oceans
Identify the continent of the greatest extent and the most numerous population.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify · To what, where: continent
This is exam question 1 of lesson 5 «Continents and oceans» 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 | 3 continent | det |
| 3 | continent | continent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 extent | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 extent | det |
| 6 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 extent | amod |
| 7 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 continent | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 population | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 population | det |
| 10 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 11 numerous | advmod |
| 11 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 population | amod |
| 12 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 extent | conj |
| 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 continent of the greatest extent and the numerous population | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent continent=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
North America
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 America | compound |
| 2 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Asia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Africa
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Europe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 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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