Exam question 3 · Islands, seas and lakes

Determine which island, Australia being excluded as a continent, possesses the greatest area.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, island · What happens: determine, exclude, possess · To what, where: island, Australia, greatest area

This is exam question 3 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 island	det
3	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Australia	punct
5	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 excluded	nsubj:pass
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 excluded	aux:pass
7	excluded	exclude	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 island	acl:relcl
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 continent	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 continent	det
10	continent	continent	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 excluded	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 possesses	punct
12	possesses	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Determine	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 area	det
14	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 area	amod
15	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 possesses	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	which island		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Topic
2	exclude	gerund · passive	which island not said here	Australia	as a continent	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	possess	present		the greatest area		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot area=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

New Guinea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Guinea	compound
2	Guinea	Guinea	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Borneo, in Asia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Borneo	Borneo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Asia	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Asia	case
4	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Borneo	flat

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Greenland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Great Britain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Britain	amod
2	Britain	Britain	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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