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title: Determine which island, Australia being excluded as a continent, pos… — Islands, seas and lakes · tree and pragmatics
description: Determine which island, Australia being excluded as a continent, possesses the greatest area. Exam question 3 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 3 · Islands, seas and lakes

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Determine which island, Australia being excluded as a continent, possesses the greatest area.

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, island · **What happens:** determine, exclude, possess · **To what, where:** island, Australia, greatest area

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:6-islands-seas-and-lakes:e3:1
# text = Determine which island, Australia being excluded as a continent, possesses the greatest area.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	excluded	exclude	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	continent	continent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	possesses	possess	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | which island |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Topic |
| 2 | **exclude** | gerund · passive | which island *not said here* | Australia |  |  |  | as a continent | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **possess** | present |  | the greatest area |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot area=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 {#o1}

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New Guinea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:6-islands-seas-and-lakes:e3:o1:1
# text = New Guinea
1	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Guinea	Guinea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Borneo, in Asia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:6-islands-seas-and-lakes:e3:o2:1
# text = Borneo, in Asia
1	Borneo	Borneo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Asia	Asia	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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Greenland

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:6-islands-seas-and-lakes:e3:o3:1
# text = Greenland
1	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Great Britain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:6-islands-seas-and-lakes:e3:o4:1
# text = Great Britain
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Britain	Britain	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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