--- title: «bloody hell, the congo's 220 metres deep?? thats deeper than a skys… — The great rivers · tree and pragmatics description: «bloody hell, the congo's 220 metres deep?? thats deeper than a skyscraper is tall» Is the depth right? Test 8 of lesson 16 «The great rivers» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/16-the-great-rivers/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/) / [The great rivers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/16-the-great-rivers/) / t8 # Test 8 · The great rivers «bloody hell, the congo's 220 metres deep?? thats deeper than a skyscraper is tall» Is the depth right? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** skyscraper · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** depth This is test 8 of lesson 16 «The great rivers» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/16-the-great-rivers/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:16-the-great-rivers:t8:1 # text = «bloody hell, the congo's 220 metres deep?? thats deeper than a skyscraper is tall» Is the depth right? 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 bloody bloody ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 hell hell NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 congo congo NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 220 220 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ?? ?? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 12 thats that NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 deeper deep ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 14 than than SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 skyscraper skyscraper NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 20 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 depth depth NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 advcl _ _ 23 right right ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ? ? PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a skyscraper | | | | | tall *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | | the depth | | | | | 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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} No, it is only 2 metres deep ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:16-the-great-rivers:t8:o1:1 # text = No, it is only 2 metres deep 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 8 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 only only ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | it | | | | | 2 metres *obl:unmarked*; deep *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Yes, it is more than 220 metres deep in places, the deepest river ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:16-the-great-rivers:t8:o2:1 # text = Yes, it is more than 220 metres deep in places, the deepest river 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 9 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 advmod _ _ 6 than than ADP IN _ 5 fixed _ _ 7 220 220 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 deepest deep ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 15 amod _ _ 15 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | it | | | | | more *property* | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} No, no river is more than 10 metres deep ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:16-the-great-rivers:t8:o3:1 # text = No, no river is more than 10 metres deep 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 advmod _ _ 7 than than ADP IN _ 6 fixed _ _ 8 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | no river | | | | | more *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} No, it is 22 km deep ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:16-the-great-rivers:t8:o4:1 # text = No, it is 22 km deep 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 22 22 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 km km NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | it | | | | | 22 km *obl:unmarked*; deep *property* | tree rules | **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. 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