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title: In a video game, the core of the planet is a giant ball of ice. What… — Inside the Earth · tree and pragmatics
description: In a video game, the core of the planet is a giant ball of ice. What is the real core like? Test 7 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 7 · Inside the Earth

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In a video game, the core of the planet is a giant ball of ice. What is the real core like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** core, real core · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** giant ball, video game

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This is test 7 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a video game, the core of the planet is a giant ball of ice.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:41-inside-the-earth:t7:1
# text = In a video game, the core of the planet is a giant ball of ice.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	core	core	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the core of the planet | a giant ball |  | a video game |  | of ice | tree rules |

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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 is the real core like?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:41-inside-the-earth:t7:2
# text = What is the real core like?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	core	core	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the real core |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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A frozen lake of water and ice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:41-inside-the-earth:t7:o1:1
# text = A frozen lake of water and ice
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Very hot rock that is liquid all through

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:41-inside-the-earth:t7:o2:1
# text = Very hot rock that is liquid all through
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	liquid	liquid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	through	through	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | hot rock |  |  |  |  | liquid, through *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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A ball of gas lighter than air

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:41-inside-the-earth:t7:o3:1
# text = A ball of gas lighter than air
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	lighter	light	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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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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Very hot iron and nickel, liquid outside and solid inside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:41-inside-the-earth:t7:o4:1
# text = Very hot iron and nickel, liquid outside and solid inside
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	nickel	nickel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
11	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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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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