--- title: Egypt's people are packed in a thin strip. Where is it? — Population and cities · tree and pragmatics description: Egypt's people are packed in a thin strip. Where is it? Test 3 of lesson 24 «Population and cities» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/24-population-and-cities/t3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/) / [Population and cities](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/24-population-and-cities/) / t3 # Test 3 · Population and cities Egypt's people are packed in a thin strip. Where is it? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** strip · **What happens:** pack, be · **To what, where:** people, thin strip This is test 3 of lesson 24 «Population and cities» 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/24-population-and-cities/#t3). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Egypt's people are packed in a thin strip. ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:24-population-and-cities:t3:1 # text = Egypt's people are packed in a thin strip. 1 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 packed pack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 strip strip NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pack** | present · passive | | Egypt's people | | a thin strip | | | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in strip=Destination | 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. *Sentence 2:* Where is it? ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:24-population-and-cities:t3:2 # text = Where is it? 1 Where where ADV WRB PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | strip | | | | | where *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Along the Red Sea mountains ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:24-population-and-cities:t3:o1:1 # text = Along the Red Sea mountains 1 Along along ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 Red Red PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Along the River Nile ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:24-population-and-cities:t3:o2:1 # text = Along the River Nile 1 Along along ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 River River PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Nile Nile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Around the oases of Libya ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:24-population-and-cities:t3:o3:1 # text = Around the oases of Libya 1 Around around ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 oases oasis NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Libya Libya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} In the middle of the Sahara ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:24-population-and-cities:t3:o4:1 # text = In the middle of the Sahara 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Sahara Sahara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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