Exam question 4 · Continents and oceans
Ascertain the location of the greatest known oceanic depth.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, know · To what, where: location
This is exam question 4 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 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 location | det |
| 3 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 depth | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 depth | det |
| 6 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 depth | amod |
| 7 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 depth | amod |
| 8 | oceanic | oceanic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 depth | compound |
| 9 | depth | depth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 location | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | the location of the greatest known oceanic depth | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent location=Topic | ||||
| 2 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Puerto Rico Trench in the Atlantic
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Trench | det |
| 2 | Puerto | Puerto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Trench | compound |
| 3 | Rico | Rico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Trench | compound |
| 4 | Trench | Trench | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Atlantic | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Atlantic | det |
| 7 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Trench | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Deep | det |
| 2 | Challenger | Challenger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Deep | compound |
| 3 | Deep | Deep | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Trench | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Trench | det |
| 6 | Mariana | Mariana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Trench | compound |
| 7 | Trench | Trench | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Deep | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Mediterranean basin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 basin | det |
| 2 | Mediterranean | mediterranean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 basin | amod |
| 3 | basin | basin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Arctic Ocean beneath the Pole
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Ocean | det |
| 2 | Arctic | Arctic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ocean | compound |
| 3 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 6 Pole | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Pole | det |
| 6 | Pole | Pole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ocean | nmod |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/5-continents-and-oceans/e4/