Test 7 · ★★★ · Moving continents: from Pangaea to today

India moves about 5 cm a year now. "hang on, how did it get from near Antarctica to Asia then?"

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: India, it · What happens: move about, hang on, get · To what, where: 5 cm, Asia, Antarctica · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★★ 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	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 moves	nsubj
2	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 5	advmod
4	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 cm	nummod
5	cm	cm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 moves	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cm	nmod:unmarked
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 moves	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 moves	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 hang	punct
11	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 moves	parataxis
12	on	on	ADP	_	11 hang	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 get	punct
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 get	advmod
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 get	aux
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 get	nsubj
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 hang	conj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 Antarctica	case
19	near	near	ADP	_	20 Antarctica	case
20	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 get	obl
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 Asia	case
22	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 get	obl
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 get	advmod
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 hang	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 hang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	move about	present	India	5 cm a year			now	tree rules
2	hang on in a quote	infinitive						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	get in a quote	past · do-support	it		Asia	Antarctica	then	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from antarctica=Initial_Location to asia=Destination

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

It was towed by strong sea currents in just a few years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 towed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 towed	aux:pass
3	towed	tow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 currents	case
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 currents	amod
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 currents	compound
7	currents	current	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 towed	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 years	case
9	just	just	ADV	_	12 years	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 years	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 years	amod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 towed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tow	past · passive	strong sea currents	It			year		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It raced north faster, up to about 15 cm a year, for tens of millions of years

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 raced	nsubj
2	raced	race	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	north	north	ADV	_	4 faster	advmod
4	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 raced	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cm	punct
6	up	up	ADV	_	10 cm	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 cm	case
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 15	advmod
9	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 cm	nummod
10	cm	cm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 raced	obl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 year	det
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cm	nmod:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tens	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 tens	case
15	tens	ten	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 raced	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 millions	case
17	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tens	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 years	case
19	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 millions	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	race	past	It			15 cm a year		for tens of millions of years; fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cm=Destination

Option 3

It was blown there by a giant volcano

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 blown	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 blown	aux:pass
3	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 blown	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 volcano	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 volcano	det
7	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 volcano	amod
8	volcano	volcano	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past · passive	a giant volcano	It		there			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 4

It sank and came back up in Asia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sank	nsubj
2	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 came	cc
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sank	conj
5	back	back	ADV	_	6 up	advmod
6	up	up	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Asia	case
8	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past	It						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	come back	past				Asia			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in asia=Location

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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