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title: "if u could drive a car straight down at 100 km/h, how long to the c… — Inside the Earth · tree and pragmatics
description: "if u could drive a car straight down at 100 km/h, how long to the centre?" Test 3 of lesson 41 «Inside the Earth» 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 3 · Inside the Earth

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
"if u could drive a car straight down at 100 km/h, how long to the centre?"

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** u · **What happens:** drive · **To what, where:** car, 100 km/h

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This is test 3 of lesson 41 «Inside the Earth» 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/41-inside-the-earth/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:41-inside-the-earth:t3:1
# text = "if u could drive a car straight down at 100 km/h, how long to the centre?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	u	you	PRON	PRP	Abbr=Yes|Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	km/h	km/h	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** *in a quote* | could | u | a car |  | 100 km/h |  | down, long *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent car=Theme at km/h=Destination |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
About 6 hours, less than a day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:41-inside-the-earth:t3:o1:1
# text = About 6 hours, less than a day
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
About a year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:41-inside-the-earth:t3:o2:1
# text = About a year
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
About 64 hours, almost three days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:41-inside-the-earth:t3:o3:1
# text = About 64 hours, almost three days
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	64	64	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
About 10 minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:41-inside-the-earth:t3:o4:1
# text = About 10 minutes
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	minutes	minute	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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