--- title: Determine the desert of greatest area, given that a desert is define… — Friends who cling to a legend · tree and pragmatics description: Determine the desert of greatest area, given that a desert is defined by scarcity of precipitation. Exam question 4 of lesson 31 «Friends who cling to a legend» of the myths course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/e4/) [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/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/) / [Friends who cling to a legend](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Friends who cling to a legend Determine the desert of greatest area, given that a desert is defined by scarcity of precipitation. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, scarcity · **What happens:** determine, give, define · **To what, where:** desert, greatest area This is exam question 4 of lesson 31 «Friends who cling to a legend» of the myths 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/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend:e4:1 # text = Determine the desert of greatest area, given that a desert is defined by scarcity of precipitation. 1 Determine determine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 6 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 defined define VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 advcl _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 scarcity scarcity NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 precipitation precipitation NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the desert of greatest area | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desert=Topic | | 2 | **give** | participle | | greatest area *not said here* | | | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **define** | present · passive | scarcity of precipitation | a desert | | | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | 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} The Sahara ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend:e4:o1:1 # text = The Sahara 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Sahara Sahara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The Gobi ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend:e4:o2:1 # text = The Gobi 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Gobi Gobi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Antarctica ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend:e4:o3:1 # text = Antarctica 1 Antarctica Antarctica PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} The Kalahari ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend:e4:o4:1 # text = The Kalahari 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Kalahari Kalahari PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` 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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