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title: Why do most of the world's people and the EU5 map's great powers lie… — Continents and oceans · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do most of the world's people and the EU5 map's great powers lie in the north? Test 11 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 right.
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# Test 11 · Continents and oceans

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Why do most of the world's people and the EU5 map's great powers lie in the north?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** great powers · **What happens:** do, lie · **To what, where:** most, north

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This is test 11 of lesson 5 «Continents and oceans» 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/5-continents-and-oceans/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:5-continents-and-oceans:t11:1
# text = Why do most of the world's people and the EU5 map's great powers lie in the north?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	EU5	EU5	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | most of the world's people |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Eventuality |
| 2 | **lie** | present | the EU5 map's great powers |  |  | the north |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in north=Location |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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About two-thirds of the land is in the northern hemisphere

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:5-continents-and-oceans:t11:o1:1
# text = About two-thirds of the land is in the northern hemisphere
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	thirds	third	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hemisphere	hemisphere	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** | present | two thirds of the land |  |  | the northern hemisphere |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The south is all ice and cold deserts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:5-continents-and-oceans:t11:o2:1
# text = The south is all ice and cold deserts
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	deserts	desert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the south | all ice and cold deserts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The south has no rivers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:5-continents-and-oceans:t11:o3:1
# text = The south has no rivers
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the south | no rivers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The game hides the southern lands from the players on purpose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:5-continents-and-oceans:t11:o4:1
# text = The game hides the southern lands from the players on purpose
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present | the game | the southern lands |  | the players |  | on purpose | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent land=Patient from player=Beneficiary |

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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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