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title: «the bosporus is like 50 km wide right» What is right? — Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca,… · tree and pragmatics
description: «the bosporus is like 50 km wide right» What is right? Test 5 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors» 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 r
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# Test 5 · ★★ · Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the othe…

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«the bosporus is like 50 km wide right» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** bosporus, 50 km · **What happens:** be

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This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. 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/19-straits-the-narrow-doors/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:19-straits-the-narrow-doors:t5:1
# text = «the bosporus is like 50 km wide right» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bosporus	bosporus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
8	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	right	right	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the bosporus |  |  |  |  | like 50 km; wide *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | 50 km |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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It is about 50 km wide

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:19-straits-the-narrow-doors:t5:o1:1
# text = It is about 50 km wide
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | 50 km |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It is about 800 km wide

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:19-straits-the-narrow-doors:t5:o2:1
# text = It is about 800 km wide
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	800	800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | 800 km |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It is dry land

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:19-straits-the-narrow-doors:t5:o3:1
# text = It is dry land
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | dry land |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It is less than 1 km wide at its narrowest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:19-straits-the-narrow-doors:t5:o4:1
# text = It is less than 1 km wide at its narrowest
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	narrowest	narrow	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | less *property* | tree rules |

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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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