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title: Identify the body of water into which the River Volga discharges. — The great rivers · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the body of water into which the River Volga discharges. Exam question 2 of lesson 16 «The great rivers» 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 was wrong.
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# Exam question 2 · The great rivers

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Identify the body of water into which the River Volga discharges.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify · **To what, where:** body, Volga discharges

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 16 «The great rivers» 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/16-the-great-rivers/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:16-the-great-rivers:e2:1
# text = Identify the body of water into which the River Volga discharges.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Volga	Volga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	discharges	discharge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the body of water |  | the Volga discharges |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent body=Theme |

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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}

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The Black Sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:16-the-great-rivers:e2:o1:1
# text = The Black Sea
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Arctic Ocean

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:16-the-great-rivers:e2:o2:1
# text = The Arctic Ocean
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The Caspian Sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:16-the-great-rivers:e2:o3:1
# text = The Caspian Sea
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Caspian	Caspian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Baltic Sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:16-the-great-rivers:e2:o4:1
# text = The Baltic Sea
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Baltic	Baltic	PROPN	NNP	_	3	compound	_	_
3	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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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