Exam question 3 · Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★

Identify the location at which every possible direction of departure leads southwards.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, possible direction · What happens: identify, lead · To what, where: location

This is exam question 3 of lesson 63 «Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★» 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	at	at	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 leads	obl
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 direction	det
7	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 direction	amod
8	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leads	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 departure	case
10	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 direction	nmod
11	leads	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
12	southwards	southwards	ADV	_	11 leads	advmod
13	.	.	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	lead	present	every possible direction of departure					southwards property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at which=Destination

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

Greenwich in London

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Greenwich	Greenwich	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 London	case
3	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Greenwich	nmod

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

Option 2

The South Pole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The North Pole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

The equator at the prime meridian

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 equator	det
2	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 meridian	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 meridian	det
5	prime	prime	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 meridian	amod
6	meridian	meridian	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 equator	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.

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