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title: How can Baikal be smaller in area than Lake Superior but hold more w… — Islands, seas and lakes · tree and pragmatics
description: How can Baikal be smaller in area than Lake Superior but hold more water? Test 4 · ★ 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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# Test 4 · ★ · Islands, seas and lakes

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How can Baikal be smaller in area than Lake Superior but hold more water?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Baikal · **What happens:** be, hold · **To what, where:** area, more water

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:6-islands-seas-and-lakes:t4:1
# text = How can Baikal be smaller in area than Lake Superior but hold more water?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	Baikal	Baikal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	Superior	Superior	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can | Baikal |  |  | area than Lake |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | present | Baikal *not said here* | more water |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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It is far deeper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:6-islands-seas-and-lakes:t4:o1:1
# text = It is far deeper
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | deep, far *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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It is fed by the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:6-islands-seas-and-lakes:t4:o2:1
# text = It is fed by the sea
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | present · passive | the sea | It |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It is measured in winter only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:6-islands-seas-and-lakes:t4:o3:1
# text = It is measured in winter only
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	measured	measure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **measure** | present · passive |  | It |  |  | winter |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Its water is heavier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:6-islands-seas-and-lakes:t4:o4:1
# text = Its water is heavier
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Its water |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | tree rules |

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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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