Exam question 2 · Rivers, lakes and the sea up close
Ascertain the proportion of the Earth's water which is salty sea water.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, proportion · What happens: ascertain, be · To what, where: proportion, salty sea water
This is exam question 2 of lesson 64 «Rivers, lakes and the sea up close» 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 | Ascertain | ascertain | 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 Ascertain | 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 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 water | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 water | cop |
| 11 | salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 water | amod |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 water | compound |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 proportion | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | the proportion of the Earth's water and salty sea water | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proportion=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the proportion of the Earth's water and salty sea water | salty sea water | tree rules |
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
About 3 parts in 100
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 3 | advmod |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 parts | nummod |
| 3 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 100 | case |
| 5 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 parts | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About 50 parts in 100
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 50 | advmod |
| 2 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 parts | nummod |
| 3 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 100 | case |
| 5 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 parts | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About 75 parts in 100
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 75 | advmod |
| 2 | 75 | 75 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 parts | nummod |
| 3 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 100 | case |
| 5 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 parts | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
About 97 parts in 100
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 97 | advmod |
| 2 | 97 | 97 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 parts | nummod |
| 3 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 100 | case |
| 5 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 parts | nmod |
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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