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title: Which list contains only continents? — Continents and oceans · tree and pragmatics
description: Which list contains only continents? Test 3 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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# Test 3 · Continents and oceans

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Which list contains only continents?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** list · **What happens:** contain · **To what, where:** continents

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This is test 3 of lesson 42 «Continents and oceans» of the world 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/world/42-continents-and-oceans/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:42-continents-and-oceans:t3:1
# text = Which list contains only continents?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	continents	continent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | present | which list | continents |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot continent=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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Africa, Europe, Australia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:42-continents-and-oceans:t3:o1:1
# text = Africa, Europe, Australia
1	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Africa, Pacific, Europe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:42-continents-and-oceans:t3:o2:1
# text = Africa, Pacific, Europe
1	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Asia, Arctic, Canada

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:42-continents-and-oceans:t3:o3:1
# text = Asia, Arctic, Canada
1	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Atlantic, Indian, Europe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:42-continents-and-oceans:t3:o4:1
# text = Atlantic, Indian, Europe
1	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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