Exam question 4 · The British Isles and the United Kingdom

Identify the river of the greatest length within the United Kingdom.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify · To what, where: river

This is exam question 4 of lesson 8 «The British Isles and the United Kingdom» 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 river	det
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 length	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 length	det
6	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 length	amod
7	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 river	nmod
8	within	within	ADP	_	11 Kingdom	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Kingdom	det
10	United	United	PROPN	_	11 Kingdom	flat
11	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
12	.	.	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 river of the greatest length				within the United Kingdom	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent river=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

The River Trent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

The River Thames

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

The River Tay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The River Severn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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