Exam question 1 · The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to…

Identify the location designated by the coordinates fifty degrees north and forty degrees west.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, designate · To what, where: location

This is exam question 1 of lesson 61 «The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to the Limpopo, the Amazon and Surrey» 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	3 location	det
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	designated	designate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 location	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 coordinates	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 coordinates	det
7	coordinates	coordinate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 designated	obl
8	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 degrees	nummod
9	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 coordinates	nmod:unmarked
10	north	north	ADV	_	9 degrees	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 west	cc
12	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 degrees	nummod
13	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 west	obl:unmarked
14	west	west	ADV	_	10 north	conj
15	.	.	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 location					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent location=Theme
2	designate	participle		the location not said here				by the coordinates fifty degrees	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

A position upon the Antarctic ice sheet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 position	det
2	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 sheet	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sheet	det
5	Antarctic	Antarctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sheet	compound
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sheet	compound
7	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 position	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A position in the open North Atlantic Ocean, remote from any coast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 position	det
2	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	8 Ocean	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Ocean	det
5	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Ocean	amod
6	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Atlantic	compound
7	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Ocean	compound
8	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 position	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 remote	punct
10	remote	remote	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 position	conj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 coast	case
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 coast	det
13	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 remote	obl

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

Option 3

A position in the interior of the African continent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 position	det
2	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 interior	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 interior	det
5	interior	interior	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 position	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 continent	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 continent	det
8	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 continent	amod
9	continent	continent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 interior	nmod

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

Option 4

A position in the Indian Ocean adjacent to Socotra

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 position	det
2	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 adjacent	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 Ocean	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Ocean	det
5	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Ocean	amod
6	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 position	nmod
7	adjacent	adjacent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Socotra	case
9	Socotra	Socotra	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 adjacent	obl

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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