Exam question 4 · Friends who cling to a legend

Determine the desert of greatest area, given that a desert is defined by scarcity of precipitation.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, scarcity · What happens: determine, give, define · To what, where: desert, greatest area

This is exam question 4 of lesson 31 «Friends who cling to a legend» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 desert	det
3	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 area	case
5	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 area	amod
6	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 desert	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 given	punct
8	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 area	acl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 defined	mark
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 desert	det
11	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 defined	nsubj:pass
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 defined	aux:pass
13	defined	define	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 given	advcl
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 scarcity	case
15	scarcity	scarcity	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 defined	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 precipitation	case
17	precipitation	precipitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 scarcity	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the desert of greatest area	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desert=Topic
2	give	participle		greatest area not said here	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	define	present · passive	scarcity of precipitation	a desert	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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 Sahara

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

The Gobi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Antarctica

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The Kalahari

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Kalahari	det
2	Kalahari	Kalahari	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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