Test 10 · ★ · Islands, seas and lakes

Which is bigger in area, the Caspian Sea or Lake Superior?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: area

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 6 «Islands, seas and lakes» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. 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	3 bigger	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bigger	cop
3	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 area	case
5	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bigger	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Sea	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sea	det
8	Caspian	Caspian	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Sea	compound
9	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 area	appos
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 Lake	cc
11	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Sea	conj
12	Superior	Superior	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Lake	flat
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 bigger	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				area		big property	tree rules

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

Nobody knows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 knows	nsubj
2	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	Nobody						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Caspian Sea, by far

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
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Sea	punct
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 far	case
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 Sea	obl

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

Option 3

They are about the same size

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 size	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 size	cop
3	about	about	ADP	_	6 size	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 size	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 size	amod
6	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					about the same size	tree rules

Option 4

Lake Superior, by far

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
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lake	punct
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 far	case
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Lake	obl

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

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