--- title: Which is bigger in area, the Caspian Sea or Lake Superior? — Islands, seas and lakes · tree and pragmatics description: Which is bigger in area, the Caspian Sea or Lake Superior? Test 10 · ★ 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/6-islands-seas-and-lakes/t10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/) / [Islands, seas and lakes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/6-islands-seas-and-lakes/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Islands, seas and lakes Which is bigger in area, the Caspian Sea or Lake Superior? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** area This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 6 «Islands, seas and lakes» 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/6-islands-seas-and-lakes/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:6-islands-seas-and-lakes:t10:1 # text = Which is bigger in area, the Caspian Sea or Lake Superior? 1 Which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 Caspian Caspian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 Lake Lake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 Superior Superior PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | area | | big *property* | tree rules | 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} Nobody knows ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:6-islands-seas-and-lakes:t10:o1:1 # text = Nobody knows 1 Nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 2 nsubj _ _ 2 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | present | Nobody | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} The Caspian Sea, by far ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:6-islands-seas-and-lakes:t10:o2:1 # text = The Caspian Sea, by far 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 _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 obl _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} They are about the same size ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:6-islands-seas-and-lakes:t10:o3:1 # text = They are about the same size 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 about about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | They | | | | | about the same size | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Lake Superior, by far ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:6-islands-seas-and-lakes:t10:o4:1 # text = Lake Superior, by far 1 Lake Lake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Superior Superior PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 1 obl _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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