Exam question 1 · Islands, seas and lakes

Identify the largest body of water upon the Earth's surface that is wholly enclosed by land.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, land · What happens: identify, enclose · To what, where: largest body, surface

This is exam question 1 of lesson 6 «Islands, seas and lakes» 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 body	det
3	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 body	amod
4	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 body	nmod
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 surface	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Earth	det
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 surface	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Earth	case
11	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 enclosed	nsubj:pass
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 enclosed	aux:pass
14	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	15 enclosed	advmod
15	enclosed	enclose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 surface	acl:relcl
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 land	case
17	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 enclosed	obl
18	.	.	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 largest body of water				upon the Earth's surface	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent body=Theme
2	enclose	present · passive	land	the Earth's surface				wholly property	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-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

Lake Baikal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Baikal	Baikal	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Lake	flat

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

Option 2

Lake Superior

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Superior	Superior	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Lake	flat

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Caspian Sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sea	det
2	Caspian	Caspian	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Sea	compound
3	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The Lakes Michigan and Huron taken together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Michigan	det
2	Lakes	Lake	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 Michigan	compound
3	Michigan	Michigan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 taken	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Huron	cc
5	Huron	Huron	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Michigan	conj
6	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	together	together	ADV	_	6 taken	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	participle	the Lakes Michigan and Huron					together property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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