Exam question 4 · Natural resources and why we must save them

State the proportion of the Earth's water that is fresh water fit for drinking.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, water · What happens: state, be, fit, drink · To what, where: proportion, fresh water

This is exam question 4 of lesson 47 «Natural resources and why we must save them» of the world 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 proportion	det
3	proportion	proportion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 water	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Earth	det
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 water	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Earth	case
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 proportion	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 fit	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 water	cop
11	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 water	amod
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fit	obl
13	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 water	acl:relcl
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 drinking	mark
15	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 fit	advcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the proportion of the Earth's water	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent proportion=Topic
2	is a	present		fresh water	tree rules
3	fit	present	the Earth's water		vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	drink	gerund	the Earth's water not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 right answer

Only a very small part

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 part	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 part	det
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 small	advmod
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 part	amod
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The entirety

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

The greater part

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 part	det
2	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 part	amod
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Approximately one half

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 half	nummod
3	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	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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