Exam question 3 · The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator

State the approximate proportion of the Earth's surface covered by water.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: cover · To what, where: surface

This is exam question 3 of lesson 7 «The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator» 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 proportion	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 proportion	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 proportion	amod
4	proportion	proportion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 surface	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Earth	det
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 surface	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Earth	case
9	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 proportion	nmod
10	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 surface	acl
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 water	case
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 covered	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 proportion	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle		the Earth's surface not said here				by water	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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

Three tenths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 tenths	nummod
2	tenths	tenth	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

One half

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 half	nummod
2	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Seven tenths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 tenths	nummod
2	tenths	tenth	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Nine tenths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 tenths	nummod
2	tenths	tenth	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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