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title: If you sailed with a gyre in the North Atlantic, which way would you… — Winds, monsoons and ocean currents · tree and pragmatics
description: If you sailed with a gyre in the North Atlantic, which way would you be carried round? Test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 22 «Winds, monsoons and ocean currents» 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
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# Test 12 · ★★★ · Winds, monsoons and ocean currents

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If you sailed with a gyre in the North Atlantic, which way would you be carried round?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** sail, carry · **To what, where:** North Atlantic, way

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This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 22 «Winds, monsoons and ocean currents» 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/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents:t12:1
# text = If you sailed with a gyre in the North Atlantic, which way would you be carried round?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gyre	gyre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	13	det	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
18	round	round	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | past | you |  |  | the North Atlantic |  | with a gyre | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **carry** | would · passive |  | which way |  |  |  | round *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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Anticlockwise

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents:t12:o1:1
# text = Anticlockwise
1	Anticlockwise	anticlockwise	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Clockwise

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents:t12:o2:1
# text = Clockwise
1	Clockwise	clockwise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Back and forth on the spot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents:t12:o3:1
# text = Back and forth on the spot
1	Back	back	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Straight to the North Pole

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents:t12:o4:1
# text = Straight to the North Pole
1	Straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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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