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title: Identify the continent of the greatest extent and the most numerous… — Continents and oceans · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the continent of the greatest extent and the most numerous population. Exam question 1 of lesson 5 «Continents and oceans» 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 1 · Continents and oceans

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Identify the continent of the greatest extent and the most numerous population.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify · **To what, where:** continent

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 5 «Continents and oceans» 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/5-continents-and-oceans/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:5-continents-and-oceans:e1:1
# text = Identify the continent of the greatest extent and the most numerous population.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	continent	continent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
11	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	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 continent of the greatest extent and the numerous population |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent continent=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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North America

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:5-continents-and-oceans:e1:o1:1
# text = North America
1	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Asia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:5-continents-and-oceans:e1:o2:1
# text = Asia
1	Asia	Asia	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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Africa

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:5-continents-and-oceans:e1:o3:1
# text = Africa
1	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Europe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:5-continents-and-oceans:e1:o4:1
# text = Europe
1	Europe	Europe	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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