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title: "san andreas fault, mate, does it make volcanoes or what?" — Plate tectonics · tree and pragmatics
description: "san andreas fault, mate, does it make volcanoes or what?" Test 6 · ★ of lesson 42 «Plate tectonics» 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 6 · ★ · Plate tectonics

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
"san andreas fault, mate, does it make volcanoes or what?"

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** andreas fault · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** volcanoes

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 42 «Plate tectonics» 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/42-plate-tectonics/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:42-plate-tectonics:t6:1
# text = "san andreas fault, mate, does it make volcanoes or what?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	san	san	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	andreas	andrea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	compound	_	_
4	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | present · do-support | andreas fault and mate | volcanoes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset volcano=Product |

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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 {#o1}

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No, nothing at all happens there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:42-plate-tectonics:t6:o1:1
# text = No, nothing at all happens there
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nmod	_	_
6	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, it is the biggest volcano belt in the world, bigger than the whole of Japan

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:42-plate-tectonics:t6:o2:1
# text = Yes, it is the biggest volcano belt in the world, bigger than the whole of Japan
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	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	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
7	volcano	volcano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	conj	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | the biggest volcano belt |  | the world |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  | than the whole | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, magma rises where the plates pull apart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:42-plate-tectonics:t6:o3:1
# text = Yes, magma rises where the plates pull apart
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	magma	magma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	pull	pull	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | present | magma |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pull apart** | present | the plates |  |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, plates slide sideways there, so it gives earthquakes, not volcanoes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:42-plate-tectonics:t6:o4:1
# text = No, plates slide sideways there, so it gives earthquakes, not volcanoes
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	slide	slide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	sideways	sideways	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slide** | present | plates | volcanoes |  | there |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | present | it | earthquakes |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earthquake=Theme |

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