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title: State the approximate proportion of the Earth's surface covered by w… — The shape and size of the Earth, the p… · tree and pragmatics
description: State the approximate proportion of the Earth's surface covered by water. Exam question 3 of lesson 7 «The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator» 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 w
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# Exam question 3 · The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator

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State the approximate proportion of the Earth's surface covered by water.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** cover · **To what, where:** surface

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 7 «The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator» 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/7-shape-and-size-of-the-earth/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:7-shape-and-size-of-the-earth:e3:1
# text = State the approximate proportion of the Earth's surface covered by water.
1	State	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	proportion	proportion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | participle |  | the Earth's surface *not said here* |  |  |  | by water | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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Three tenths

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:7-shape-and-size-of-the-earth:e3:o1:1
# text = Three tenths
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	tenths	tenth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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One half

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:7-shape-and-size-of-the-earth:e3:o2:1
# text = One half
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	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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Seven tenths

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:7-shape-and-size-of-the-earth:e3:o3:1
# text = Seven tenths
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	tenths	tenth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nine tenths

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:7-shape-and-size-of-the-earth:e3:o4:1
# text = Nine tenths
1	Nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	tenths	tenth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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