--- title: Ascertain the proportion of the Earth's water which is salty sea wat… — Rivers, lakes and the sea up close · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the proportion of the Earth's water which is salty sea water. Exam question 2 of lesson 64 «Rivers, lakes and the sea up close» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea/e2/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [Rivers, lakes and the sea up close](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Rivers, lakes and the sea up close Ascertain the proportion of the Earth's water which is salty sea water. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, proportion · **What happens:** ascertain, be · **To what, where:** proportion, salty sea water This is exam question 2 of lesson 64 «Rivers, lakes and the sea up close» 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/64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea:e2:1 # text = Ascertain the proportion of the Earth's water which is salty sea water. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 proportion proportion NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 salty salty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the proportion of the Earth's water and salty sea water | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proportion=Topic | | 2 | **is a** | present | the proportion of the Earth's water and salty sea water | salty sea water | | | | | tree rules | 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} About 3 parts in 100 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea:e2:o1:1 # text = About 3 parts in 100 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} About 50 parts in 100 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea:e2:o2:1 # text = About 50 parts in 100 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} About 75 parts in 100 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea:e2:o3:1 # text = About 75 parts in 100 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 75 75 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} About 97 parts in 100 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea:e2:o4:1 # text = About 97 parts in 100 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 97 97 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nmod _ _ ``` 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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