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title: Identify the river of the greatest length within the United Kingdom. — The British Isles and the United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the river of the greatest length within the United Kingdom. Exam question 4 of lesson 8 «The British Isles and the United Kingdom» 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 4 · The British Isles and the United Kingdom

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Identify the river of the greatest length within the United Kingdom.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify · **To what, where:** river

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 8 «The British Isles and the United Kingdom» 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/8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom:e4:1
# text = Identify the river of the greatest length within the United Kingdom.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	within	within	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	11	flat	_	_
11	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	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 river of the greatest length |  |  |  | within the United Kingdom | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent river=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 River Trent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom:e4:o1:1
# text = The River Trent
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Trent	Trent	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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The River Thames

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom:e4:o2:1
# text = The River Thames
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Thames	Thames	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 River Tay

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom:e4:o3:1
# text = The River Tay
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Tay	Tay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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 River Severn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom:e4:o4:1
# text = The River Severn
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Severn	Severn	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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