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title: Identify the largest body of water upon the Earth's surface that is… — Islands, seas and lakes · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the largest body of water upon the Earth's surface that is wholly enclosed by land. Exam question 1 of lesson 6 «Islands, seas and lakes» 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 · Islands, seas and lakes

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Identify the largest body of water upon the Earth's surface that is wholly enclosed by land.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, land · **What happens:** identify, enclose · **To what, where:** largest body, surface

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 6 «Islands, seas and lakes» 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/6-islands-seas-and-lakes/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:6-islands-seas-and-lakes:e1:1
# text = Identify the largest body of water upon the Earth's surface that is wholly enclosed by land.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	wholly	wholly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	enclosed	enclose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	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 largest body of water |  |  |  | upon the Earth's surface | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent body=Theme |
| 2 | **enclose** | present · passive | land | the Earth's surface |  |  |  | wholly *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=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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Lake Baikal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:6-islands-seas-and-lakes:e1:o1:1
# text = Lake Baikal
1	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Baikal	Baikal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Lake Superior

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:6-islands-seas-and-lakes:e1:o2:1
# text = Lake Superior
1	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Superior	Superior	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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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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The Caspian Sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:6-islands-seas-and-lakes:e1:o3:1
# text = The Caspian Sea
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Caspian	Caspian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Sea	Sea	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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The Lakes Michigan and Huron taken together

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:6-islands-seas-and-lakes:e1:o4:1
# text = The Lakes Michigan and Huron taken together
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Lakes	Lake	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	_
3	Michigan	Michigan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Huron	Huron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | participle | the Lakes Michigan and Huron |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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