Exam question 3 · Explorers and how the world was mapped

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning latitude and longitude.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, response, established facts · What happens: select, be, establish, concern · To what, where: response, latitude

This is exam question 3 of lesson 98 «Explorers and how the world was mapped» 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	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	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 facts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 facts	det
9	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 facts	amod
10	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consistent	obl
11	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 facts	acl
12	latitude	latitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 longitude	cc
14	longitude	longitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 latitude	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	is	present	the response		with the established facts; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	latitude and longitude		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus latitude=Experiencer

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

Latitude tells how far north or south; longitude how far east or west

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Latitude	latitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 far	advmod
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 north	advmod
5	north	north	ADV	_	2 tells	advmod
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 south	cc
7	south	south	ADV	_	5 north	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 longitude	punct
9	longitude	longitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	conj
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 far	advmod
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 east	advmod
12	east	east	ADV	_	2 tells	advmod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 west	cc
14	west	west	ADV	_	12 east	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Latitude					east, north property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Latitude tells how far east or west; longitude how far north or south

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Latitude	latitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 far	advmod
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 east	advmod
5	east	east	ADV	_	2 tells	advmod
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 west	cc
7	west	west	ADV	_	5 east	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 longitude	punct
9	longitude	longitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	conj
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 far	advmod
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 north	advmod
12	north	north	ADV	_	2 tells	advmod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 south	cc
14	south	south	ADV	_	12 north	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Latitude					east, north property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Both tell only how high a place is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 tell	nsubj
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 high	advmod
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 high	advmod
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tell	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 place	det
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 high	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Both					tell property	tree rules

Option 4

Both tell only how far a place is from the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 tell	nsubj
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 tell	advmod
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 far	advmod
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 sea	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 place	det
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sea	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sea	cop
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Both						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	a place			the sea		far property	tree rules

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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