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title: Identify the largest of the continents. — Continents and oceans · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the largest of the continents. Exam question 2 of lesson 42 «Continents and oceans» of the world 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 2 · Continents and oceans

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Identify the largest of the continents.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify · **To what, where:** largest

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 42 «Continents and oceans» of the world 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/world/42-continents-and-oceans/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:42-continents-and-oceans:e2:1
# text = Identify the largest of the continents.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	continents	continent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	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 largest |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent large=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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North America

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:42-continents-and-oceans:e2:o1:1
# text = North America
1	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	America	America	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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Africa

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:42-continents-and-oceans:e2:o2:1
# text = Africa
1	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Asia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:42-continents-and-oceans:e2:o3:1
# text = Asia
1	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Antarctica

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:42-continents-and-oceans:e2:o4:1
# text = Antarctica
1	Antarctica	Antarctica	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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