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title: Identify the minimum thickness of ice upon which one may skate. — Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the minimum thickness of ice upon which one may skate. Exam question 1 of lesson 250 «Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Exam question 1 · Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing

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Identify the minimum thickness of ice upon which one may skate.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, one · **What happens:** identify, skate · **To what, where:** minimum thickness

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 250 «Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/everyday/250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing:e1:1
# text = Identify the minimum thickness of ice upon which one may skate.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	minimum	minimum	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	thickness	thickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	skate	skate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the minimum thickness of ice |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent thickness=Theme |
| 2 | **skate** | may | one |  |  |  |  | upon ice | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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No minimum is required

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing:e1:o1:1
# text = No minimum is required
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	minimum	minimum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **require** | present · passive |  | no minimum |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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At least two centimetres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing:e1:o2:1
# text = At least two centimetres
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	nmod	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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At least one centimetre

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing:e1:o3:1
# text = At least one centimetre
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	nmod	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	centimetre	centimetre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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At least ten centimetres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing:e1:o4:1
# text = At least ten centimetres
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	nmod	_	_
3	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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