Exam question 2 · Continents and oceans

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the proportion of the terrestrial surface covered by the oceans?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris, cover · To what, where: proportion, terrestrial surface

This is exam question 2 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	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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 proportion	det
10	proportion	proportion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 surface	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 surface	det
13	terrestrial	terrestrial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 surface	amod
14	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 proportion	nmod
15	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 surface	acl
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 oceans	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 oceans	det
18	oceans	ocean	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 covered	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present	the proportion of the terrestrial surface	of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	cover	participle	the terrestrial surface not said here	by the oceans	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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

Approximately twenty-nine per cent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	4 nine	advmod
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 nine	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 twenty	punct
4	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 cent	nummod
5	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cent	compound
6	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Approximately fifty per cent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 fifty	advmod
2	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 cent	nummod
3	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cent	compound
4	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Approximately ninety per cent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 ninety	advmod
2	ninety	ninety	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 cent	nummod
3	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cent	compound
4	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Approximately seventy-one per cent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
2	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 one	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 seventy	punct
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 cent	nummod
5	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cent	compound
6	cent	cent	NOUN	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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