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title: Which ocean surrounds Antarctica? — Continents and oceans · tree and pragmatics
description: Which ocean surrounds Antarctica? Test 6 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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# Test 6 · Continents and oceans

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Which ocean surrounds Antarctica?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ocean · **What happens:** surround · **To what, where:** Antarctica

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This is test 6 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:5-continents-and-oceans:t6:1
# text = Which ocean surrounds Antarctica?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	surrounds	surround	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surround** | present | which ocean | Antarctica |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme antarctica=Co-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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The Indian Ocean only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:5-continents-and-oceans:t6:o1:1
# text = The Indian Ocean only
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Arctic Ocean

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:5-continents-and-oceans:t6:o2:1
# text = The Arctic Ocean
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Ocean	Ocean	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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The Atlantic Ocean only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:5-continents-and-oceans:t6:o3:1
# text = The Atlantic Ocean only
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The Southern Ocean

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:5-continents-and-oceans:t6:o4:1
# text = The Southern Ocean
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Southern	Southern	PROPN	NNP	_	3	flat	_	_
3	Ocean	Ocean	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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