Test 2 · ★★★ · Moving continents: from Pangaea to today

"if pangaea was still a thing could i walk from london to new york?"

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pangaea, thing · What happens: be, walk · To what, where: thing, london

This is test 2 · ★★★ 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	_	10 walk	punct
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 thing	mark
3	pangaea	pangaea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	7 thing	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thing	det
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walk	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 walk	aux
9	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 walk	nsubj
10	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 london	case
12	london	london	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walk	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 york	case
14	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 york	amod
15	york	york	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walk	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 walk	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 walk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	pangaea	a thing			still		tree rules
2	walk in a quote	could	a thing			london		to new york result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to york=Result

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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, but only by swimming across Panthalassa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 swimming	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 swimming	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 swimming	advmod
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 swimming	mark
6	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	across	across	ADP	_	8 Panthalassa	case
8	Panthalassa	Panthalassa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 swimming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	gerund				Panthalassa			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across panthalassa=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, the land was joined, though deserts and mountains would be in the way

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 joined	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 land	det
4	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 joined	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 joined	aux:pass
6	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 way	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	16 way	mark
9	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 way	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mountains	cc
11	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 deserts	conj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 way	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 way	cop
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 way	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 way	det
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 joined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join	past · passive		the land					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is	would	deserts and mountains			the way			tree rules

Option 3

No, London and New York were on different planets back then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	10 planets	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 planets	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 York	cc
5	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 York	flat
6	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 London	conj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 planets	cop
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 planets	case
9	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 planets	amod
10	planets	planet	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 planets	advmod
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 back	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	London and New York			different planets			tree rules

Option 4

No, there was no land at all back then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 was	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 back	cop
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 land	det
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 was	obl
9	back	back	ADV	_	root	root
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 back	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past					then	back property	tree rules

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