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title: Ascertain the approximate distance corresponding to a single degree… — Directions, latitude and longitude · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the approximate distance corresponding to a single degree of latitude upon the Earth's surface. Exam question 2 of lesson 2 «Directions, latitude and longitude» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Exam question 2 · Directions, latitude and longitude

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Ascertain the approximate distance corresponding to a single degree of latitude upon the Earth's surface.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, approximate distance · **What happens:** ascertain, correspond · **To what, where:** approximate distance

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 2 «Directions, latitude and longitude» 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/2-directions-latitude-and-longitude/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:2-directions-latitude-and-longitude:e2:1
# text = Ascertain the approximate distance corresponding to a single degree of latitude upon the Earth's surface.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	corresponding	correspond	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	latitude	latitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	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 approximate distance |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=Topic |
| 2 | **correspond** | gerund | the approximate distance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a single degree of latitude; upon the Earth's surface | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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Eleven kilometres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:2-directions-latitude-and-longitude:e2:o1:1
# text = Eleven kilometres
1	Eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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One thousand kilometres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:2-directions-latitude-and-longitude:e2:o2:1
# text = One thousand kilometres
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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One hundred and eleven kilometres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:2-directions-latitude-and-longitude:e2:o3:1
# text = One hundred and eleven kilometres
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
5	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sixty-nine kilometres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:2-directions-latitude-and-longitude:e2:o4:1
# text = Sixty-nine kilometres
1	Sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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