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title: Iceland sits right on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. What would you expect… — Plate tectonics · tree and pragmatics
description: Iceland sits right on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. What would you expect there? Test 8 · ★ 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 8 · ★ · Plate tectonics

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Iceland sits right on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. What would you expect there?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Iceland, you · **What happens:** sit, expect · **To what, where:** Mid-Atlantic Ridge

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Iceland sits right on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:42-plate-tectonics:t8:1
# text = Iceland sits right on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
1	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	right	right	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Mid-Atlantic	Mid-Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Ridge	Ridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present | Iceland |  |  | the Mid-Atlantic Ridge |  | right *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ridge=Location |

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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 would you expect there?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:42-plate-tectonics:t8:2
# text = What would you expect there?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	expect	expect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expect** | would | you |  |  | there |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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No earthquakes or volcanoes at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:42-plate-tectonics:t8:o1:1
# text = No earthquakes or volcanoes at all
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Huge mountains made by colliding continents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:42-plate-tectonics:t8:o2:1
# text = Huge mountains made by colliding continents
1	Huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	colliding	collide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	continents	continent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  | Huge mountains *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **collide** | gerund |  | continents |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

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Volcanoes and the land slowly being pulled apart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:42-plate-tectonics:t8:o3:1
# text = Volcanoes and the land slowly being pulled apart
1	Volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
8	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull apart** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  | apart, slowly *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V» |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A deep ocean trench

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:42-plate-tectonics:t8:o4:1
# text = A deep ocean trench
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	trench	trench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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