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title: Ascertain the mountain range within which all fourteen summits excee… — Mountains and highlands · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the mountain range within which all fourteen summits exceeding eight thousand metres are situated. Exam question 3 of lesson 17 «Mountains and highlands» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Exam question 3 · Mountains and highlands

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Ascertain the mountain range within which all fourteen summits exceeding eight thousand metres are situated.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, fourteen summits · **What happens:** ascertain, exceed, situate · **To what, where:** mountain range, thousand metres, fourteen summits

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 17 «Mountains and highlands» 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/17-mountains-and-highlands/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:17-mountains-and-highlands:e3:1
# text = Ascertain the mountain range within which all fourteen summits exceeding eight thousand metres are situated.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	range	range	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	within	within	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
8	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	summits	summit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	exceeding	exceed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	compound	_	_
12	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	situated	situate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the mountain range |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent range=Topic |
| 2 | **exceed** | gerund | all fourteen summits *not said here* | thousand metres |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot metre=Theme |
| 3 | **situate** | present · passive |  | all fourteen summits |  |  |  | within the mountain range | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=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 Andes of South America

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:17-mountains-and-highlands:e3:o1:1
# text = The Andes of South America
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Andes	Ande	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The Himalaya and Karakoram ranges of Asia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:17-mountains-and-highlands:e3:o2:1
# text = The Himalaya and Karakoram ranges of Asia
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	Himalaya	Himalaya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Karakoram	Karakoram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	ranges	range	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The Rocky Mountains of North America

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:17-mountains-and-highlands:e3:o3:1
# text = The Rocky Mountains of North America
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Rocky	Rocky	PROPN	NNP	_	3	compound	_	_
3	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Alps of Europe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:17-mountains-and-highlands:e3:o4:1
# text = The Alps of Europe
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Alps	Alp	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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