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title: A roofer splits a stone into thin sheets with one tap. Which rock is… — Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks · tree and pragmatics
description: A roofer splits a stone into thin sheets with one tap. Which rock is it most likely to be? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 49 «Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks» 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 righ
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# Test 10 · ★ · Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks

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A roofer splits a stone into thin sheets with one tap. Which rock is it most likely to be?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** roofer, rock · **What happens:** split, be · **To what, where:** stone, thin sheets

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 49 «Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks» 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/49-sedimentary-and-metamorphic-rocks/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A roofer splits a stone into thin sheets with one tap.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:49-sedimentary-and-metamorphic-rocks:t10:1
# text = A roofer splits a stone into thin sheets with one tap.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	roofer	roofer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	splits	split	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sheets	sheet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	tap	tap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **split** | present | a roofer | a stone |  |  |  | into thin sheets *result*; with one tap | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent stone=Patient into sheet=Result with tap=Instrument |

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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:* Which rock is it most likely to be?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:49-sedimentary-and-metamorphic-rocks:t10:2
# text = Which rock is it most likely to be?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
6	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | which rock |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | to-infinitive | which rock *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Slate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:49-sedimentary-and-metamorphic-rocks:t10:o1:1
# text = Slate
1	Slate	slate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Conglomerate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:49-sedimentary-and-metamorphic-rocks:t10:o2:1
# text = Conglomerate
1	Conglomerate	conglomerate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Pumice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:49-sedimentary-and-metamorphic-rocks:t10:o3:1
# text = Pumice
1	Pumice	pumice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Granite

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:49-sedimentary-and-metamorphic-rocks:t10:o4:1
# text = Granite
1	Granite	granite	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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**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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