Exam question 3 · Continents and oceans

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the number of continents.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, number

This is exam question 3 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 number	det
11	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 continents	case
13	continents	continent	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 number	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the number of continents		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus number=Experiencer

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

It varies according to the convention adopted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 varies	nsubj
2	varies	vary	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 convention	case
4	to	to	ADP	_	3 according	fixed
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 convention	det
6	convention	convention	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 varies	obl
7	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 convention	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	vary	present	It		accord the convention	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	adopt	participle		the convention not said here		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It is invariably seven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seven	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seven	cop
3	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	4 seven	advmod
4	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	seven				invariably property	tree rules

Option 3

It is invariably five

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 five	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 five	cop
3	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	4 five	advmod
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	five				invariably property	tree rules

Option 4

It is invariably six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 six	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 six	cop
3	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	4 six	advmod
4	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	six				invariably property	tree rules

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