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title: "found gold in the stream!!! shiny cubes, gonna be rich" What should… — Minerals and crystals · tree and pragmatics
description: "found gold in the stream!!! shiny cubes, gonna be rich" What should you check first? Test 1 · ★★ of lesson 50 «Minerals and crystals» 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 right.
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# Test 1 · ★★ · Minerals and crystals

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"found gold in the stream!!! shiny cubes, gonna be rich" What should you check first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** find, be, check · **To what, where:** gold, stream · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 50 «Minerals and crystals» 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/50-minerals-and-crystals/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:50-minerals-and-crystals:t1:1
# text = "found gold in the stream!!! shiny cubes, gonna be rich" What should you check first?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!!!	!!!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
8	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cubes	cube	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	dep	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
15	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	obj	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
19	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** *in a quote* | past |  | gold |  | the stream |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent gold=Theme cube=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **check** | should | you |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |

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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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Whether it floats, gold floats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:50-minerals-and-crystals:t1:o1:1
# text = Whether it floats, gold floats
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	floats	float	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	floats	float	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Whether it smells of eggs, gold does

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:50-minerals-and-crystals:t1:o2:1
# text = Whether it smells of eggs, gold does
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	smells	smell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smell** | present | it |  |  |  |  | of eggs | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of egg=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | present | gold |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Its streak and hardness: shiny cubes are probably pyrite

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:50-minerals-and-crystals:t1:o3:1
# text = Its streak and hardness: shiny cubes are probably pyrite
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	streak	streak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	hardness	hardness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cubes	cube	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	pyrite	pyrite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | shiny cubes | pyrite |  |  |  | probably *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nothing, all shiny yellow rock is gold, so start spending

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:50-minerals-and-crystals:t1:o4:1
# text = Nothing, all shiny yellow rock is gold, so start spending
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	nsubj	_	_
4	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
12	spending	spending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | all | gold |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **start** | infinitive |  | spending |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spending=Eventuality |

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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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