Test 11 · ★★★ · Moving continents: from Pangaea to today

"so in 250 million yrs it's all one big blob of land again, right, 100% sure?"

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: million yrs · What happens: be · To what, where: one big blob

This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 43 «Moving continents: from Pangaea to today» of the geography 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 blob	punct
2	so	so	ADV	_	5 million	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 250	case
4	250	250	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 million	compound
5	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 yrs	nummod
6	yrs	year	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	12 blob	nsubj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 blob	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 blob	cop
9	all	all	ADV	_	12 blob	advmod
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 blob	nummod
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 blob	amod
12	blob	blob	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sure	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 land	case
14	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 blob	nmod
15	again	again	ADV	_	12 blob	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 blob	punct
17	right	right	INTJ	_	21 sure	discourse
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sure	punct
19	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 %	nummod
20	%	%	SYM	Number=Sing	21 sure	obl:unmarked
21	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 sure	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 sure	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	million yrs	one big blob			again	of land; all property	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

Option 1

No, the continents will stop for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 stop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 continents	det
4	continents	continent	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stop	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 stop	aux
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 good	case
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	future	the continents					for good	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

No, the continents will all sink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 sink	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 continents	det
4	continents	continent	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sink	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 sink	aux
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 sink	advmod
7	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	future	the continents					all property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Yes, exactly like Pangaea again, and every scientist is certain of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	12 certain	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	12 certain	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 Pangaea	case
5	Pangaea	Pangaea	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 exactly	obl
6	again	again	ADV	_	3 exactly	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 certain	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 certain	cc
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 scientist	det
10	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 certain	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 certain	cop
12	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 certain	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	every scientist					of it; certain, exactly property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Probably, but scientists still argue about the exact shape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Probably	probably	ADV	_	6 argue	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 argue	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 argue	cc
4	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 argue	nsubj
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 argue	advmod
6	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	10 shape	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shape	det
9	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shape	amod
10	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 argue	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	present	scientists				still	about the exact shape; probably property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about shape=Topic

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