Exam question 1 · Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the territorial extent of Ukraine within Europe?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris, extend · To what, where: territorial extent, Ukraine

This is exam question 1 of lesson 50 «Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations» of the history 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 extent	det
10	territorial	territorial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 extent	amod
11	extent	extent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Ukraine	case
13	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 extent	nmod
14	within	within	ADP	_	15 Europe	case
15	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 extent	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present	the territorial extent of Ukraine	of the following statements; within Europe; accurately property	tree rules
3	extend		Ukraine	within Europe	nom extent «state transitive»: of=patient within=obl

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

It is smaller than Belgium

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 smaller	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 smaller	cop
3	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 Belgium	case
5	Belgium	Belgium	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 smaller	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					than Belgium; small property	tree rules

Option 2

It is exceeded in area within Europe by both France and Spain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 exceeded	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 exceeded	aux:pass
3	exceeded	exceed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 area	case
5	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 exceeded	obl
6	within	within	ADP	_	7 Europe	case
7	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 exceeded	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 France	case
9	both	both	CCONJ	_	10 France	cc:preconj
10	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 exceeded	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Spain	cc
12	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 France	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exceed	present · passive	France and Spain	It				within Europe; in area	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme in area=Attribute

Option 3

It is the largest state in the world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 state	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 state	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 state	det
4	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 state	amod
5	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 world	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 state	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the largest state		the world			tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It is the largest state situated wholly within the European continent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 state	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 state	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 state	det
4	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 state	amod
5	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	situated	situate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 state	acl
7	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	6 situated	advmod
8	within	within	ADP	_	11 continent	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 continent	det
10	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 continent	amod
11	continent	continent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 situated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the largest state					tree rules
2	situate	participle		the largest state not said here				within the European continent; wholly property	vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent

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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