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description: A huge ship gets stuck sideways in the Suez Canal for a week. What happens? Test 2 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Resources and what countries trade» 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 2 · ★★ · Resources and what countries trade

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A huge ship gets stuck sideways in the Suez Canal for a week. What happens?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** huge ship · **What happens:** get, happen · **To what, where:** stuck sideways, Suez Canal

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This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Resources and what countries trade» 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/27-resources-and-what-countries-trade/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A huge ship gets stuck sideways in the Suez Canal for a week.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:27-resources-and-what-countries-trade:t2:1
# text = A huge ship gets stuck sideways in the Suez Canal for a week.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sideways	sideway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Suez	Suez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Canal	Canal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | a huge ship | stuck sideways |  | the Suez Canal | week |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sideway=Stimulus |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What happens?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:27-resources-and-what-countries-trade:t2:2
# text = What happens?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Hundreds of ships are delayed and goods arrive late

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:27-resources-and-what-countries-trade:t2:o1:1
# text = Hundreds of ships are delayed and goods arrive late
1	Hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	delayed	delayed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	1	conj	_	_
8	arrive	arrive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Hundreds and goods *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of ships; delayed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **arrive** | present | Hundreds and goods |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Nothing, the other ships simply sail round it on the wide canal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:27-resources-and-what-countries-trade:t2:o2:1
# text = Nothing, the other ships simply sail round it on the wide canal
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	sail	sail	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	round	round	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	canal	canal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | present | the other ships |  |  | the wide canal |  | round it; simply *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent round it=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The canal moves to a new place

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:27-resources-and-what-countries-trade:t2:o3:1
# text = The canal moves to a new place
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	canal	canal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | present | the canal |  |  | a new place |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to place=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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All trade between countries stops forever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:27-resources-and-what-countries-trade:t2:o4:1
# text = All trade between countries stops forever
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	between	between	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present | all trade between countries |  |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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