--- title: State the approximate proportion of the world's fresh water retained… — The Arctic and Antarctica · tree and pragmatics description: State the approximate proportion of the world's fresh water retained within the Antarctic ice sheet. Exam question 4 of lesson 15 «The Arctic and Antarctica» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice wa --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/15-the-arctic-and-antarctica/e4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/) / [The Arctic and Antarctica](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/15-the-arctic-and-antarctica/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · The Arctic and Antarctica State the approximate proportion of the world's fresh water retained within the Antarctic ice sheet. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** retain · **To what, where:** fresh water This is exam question 4 of lesson 15 «The Arctic and Antarctica» of the geography 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/15-the-arctic-and-antarctica/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:15-the-arctic-and-antarctica:e4:1 # text = State the approximate proportion of the world's fresh water retained within the Antarctic ice sheet. 1 State state NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 approximate approximate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 proportion proportion NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 11 retained retain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 12 within within ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 Antarctic Antarctic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 15 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 sheet sheet NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **retain** | participle | | the world's fresh water *not said here* | | | | within the Antarctic ice sheet | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Approximately one per cent ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:15-the-arctic-and-antarctica:e4:o1:1 # text = Approximately one per cent 1 Approximately approximately ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 3 per per NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 cent cent NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Approximately one hundred per cent ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:15-the-arctic-and-antarctica:e4:o2:1 # text = Approximately one hundred per cent 1 Approximately approximately ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 compound _ _ 3 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 4 per per NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 cent cent NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Approximately seven per cent ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:15-the-arctic-and-antarctica:e4:o3:1 # text = Approximately seven per cent 1 Approximately approximately ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 3 per per NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 cent cent NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Approximately seventy per cent ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:15-the-arctic-and-antarctica:e4:o4:1 # text = Approximately seventy per cent 1 Approximately approximately ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 seventy seventy NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 3 per per NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 cent cent NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 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. 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