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title: Real life: about how many high tides do most coasts get in about 25… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real life: about how many high tides do most coasts get in about 25 hours? Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 92 «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Test 8 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3…

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Real life: about how many high tides do most coasts get in about 25 hours?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many high tides, most coasts · **What happens:** do, get

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This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 92 «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work» of the books 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea:t8:1
# text = Real life: about how many high tides do most coasts get in about 25 hours?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
4	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tides	tide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
10	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	coasts	coast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | many high tides |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | present | most coasts |  |  |  | hour |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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Four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea:t8:o1:1
# text = Four
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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0

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea:t8:o2:1
# text = 0
1	0	0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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1

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea:t8:o3:1
# text = 1
1	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea:t8:o4:1
# text = Two
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	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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