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title: Identify the largest desert upon the Earth. — Deserts · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the largest desert upon the Earth. Exam question 2 of lesson 18 «Deserts» 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 · Deserts

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Identify the largest desert upon the Earth.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify · **To what, where:** largest desert

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 18 «Deserts» 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/18-deserts/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:18-deserts:e2:1
# text = Identify the largest desert upon the Earth.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	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 largest desert |  |  |  | upon the Earth | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent desert=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 Sahara Desert

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:18-deserts:e2:o1:1
# text = The Sahara Desert
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Desert	Desert	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 Arabian Desert

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:18-deserts:e2:o2:1
# text = The Arabian Desert
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Desert	Desert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The Gobi Desert

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:18-deserts:e2:o3:1
# text = The Gobi Desert
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Gobi	Gobi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Desert	Desert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Antarctica

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:18-deserts:e2:o4:1
# text = Antarctica
1	Antarctica	Antarctica	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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