Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / Myths / Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts / e3

Exam question 3 · Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts

It is given that common flat maps of the world represent Greenland as comparable in area to Africa. Select the response consistent with the established facts.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: that, you · What happens: give, represent, select, establish · To what, where: It, Greenland, response

This is exam question 3 of lesson 17 «Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts» of the myths 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

Sentence 1: It is given that common flat maps of the world represent Greenland as comparable in area to Africa.

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 given	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 represent	nsubj
5	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 maps	amod
6	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 maps	amod
7	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 represent	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 maps	nmod
11	represent	represent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	parataxis
12	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 represent	obj
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 comparable	case
14	comparable	comparable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 represent	xcomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 area	case
16	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 comparable	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 Africa	case
18	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 comparable	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		It					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	represent	present	that	Greenland				comparable property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot greenland=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.

Sentence 2: Select the response consistent with the established facts.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	amod
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle							vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The two land masses are of equal area

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 masses	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 masses	nummod
3	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 masses	compound
4	masses	mass	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 area	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 area	cop
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 area	case
7	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 area	amod
8	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the two land masses					of equal area	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Africa exceeds Greenland in area approximately fourteenfold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 exceeds	nsubj
2	exceeds	exceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 exceeds	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 area	case
5	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 exceeds	obl
6	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	7 fourteenfold	advmod
7	fourteenfold	fourteenfold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 exceeds	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exceed	present	Africa	Greenland				in area	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot greenland=Theme in area=Attribute
2	fourteenfold	present	Africa not said here					approximately property	tree rules

Option 3

The areas of the two land masses cannot be determined at present

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 areas	det
2	areas	area	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 determined	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 masses	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 masses	det
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 masses	nummod
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 masses	compound
7	masses	mass	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 areas	nmod
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 determined	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 determined	advmod
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 determined	aux:pass
11	determined	determine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 present	case
13	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 determined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not determine	can · passive		the areas of the two land masses		present			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 4

Greenland exceeds Africa in area

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 exceeds	nsubj
2	exceeds	exceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 exceeds	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 area	case
5	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 exceeds	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exceed	present	Greenland	Africa				in area	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot africa=Theme in area=Attribute

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/17-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts/e3/