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title: What is the ocean around the North Pole called? — Continents and oceans · tree and pragmatics
description: What is the ocean around the North Pole called? Test 9 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 9 · Continents and oceans

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What is the ocean around the North Pole called?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, call · **To what, where:** ocean, North Pole · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:42-continents-and-oceans:t9:1
# text = What is the ocean around the North Pole called?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	around	around	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the ocean |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | the ocean *not said here* |  | the North Pole |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 Southern Ocean

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:42-continents-and-oceans:t9:o1:1
# text = The Southern Ocean
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Southern	Southern	PROPN	NNP	_	3	flat	_	_
3	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The Arctic Ocean

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:42-continents-and-oceans:t9:o2:1
# text = The Arctic Ocean
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Ocean	Ocean	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 Indian Ocean

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:42-continents-and-oceans:t9:o3:1
# text = The Indian Ocean
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Ocean	Ocean	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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The Atlantic Ocean

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:42-continents-and-oceans:t9:o4:1
# text = The Atlantic Ocean
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Ocean	Ocean	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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