Test 9 · ★★★ · Moving continents: from Pangaea to today
A clever puzzle: the Atlantic opens a few cm a year and is about 5,000 km wide. Roughly how long did it take to open?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: clever puzzle · What happens: open, be, take · To what, where: few cm, puzzle
This is test 9 · ★★★ 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
Sentence 1: A clever puzzle: the Atlantic opens a few cm a year and is about 5,000 km wide.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 puzzle | det |
| 2 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 puzzle | amod |
| 3 | puzzle | puzzle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 opens | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 opens | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Atlantic | det |
| 6 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 opens | nsubj |
| 7 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cm | det |
| 9 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cm | amod |
| 10 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 opens | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 year | det |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 opens | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wide | cc |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 wide | cop |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 5,000 | advmod |
| 16 | 5,000 | 5000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 km | nummod |
| 17 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wide | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 opens | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 opens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | present | a clever puzzle | a few cm | year | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cm=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | a clever puzzle not said here | 5,000 km obl:unmarked; wide 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.
Sentence 2: Roughly how long did it take to open?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 6 take | advmod |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 take | advmod |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 take | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | aux |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 take | expl |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 open | mark |
| 8 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 take | advcl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · do-support | puzzle | long, roughly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | open | to-infinitive | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About 10 billion years, longer than the Earth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 billion | advmod |
| 2 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 billion | compound |
| 3 | billion | billion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 longer | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 years | punct |
| 6 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 Earth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Earth | det |
| 9 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 longer | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About 1,000 years, since the Vikings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 1,000 | advmod |
| 2 | 1,000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 years | punct |
| 5 | since | since | ADP | _ | 7 Vikings | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Vikings | det |
| 7 | Vikings | Viking | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 years | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About 50,000 years, give or take
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 50,000 | advmod |
| 2 | 50,000 | 50000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 give | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 years | punct |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 take | cc |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | year | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | you not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
About 100-200 million years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 million | advmod |
| 2 | 100-200 | 100-200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 million | compound |
| 3 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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