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title: An old limestone church statue has a blurred, melted-looking face. W… — Weathering and erosion · tree and pragmatics
description: An old limestone church statue has a blurred, melted-looking face. What most likely did it? Test 3 of lesson 52 «Weathering and erosion» 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 3 · Weathering and erosion

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An old limestone church statue has a blurred, melted-looking face. What most likely did it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** old church statue · **What happens:** have, blur, melt, look, do · **To what, where:** blurred looking face, face

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This is test 3 of lesson 52 «Weathering and erosion» 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/52-weathering-and-erosion/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* An old limestone church statue has a blurred, melted-looking face.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:52-weathering-and-erosion:t3:1
# text = An old limestone church statue has a blurred, melted-looking face.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	limestone	limestone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
8	blurred	blur	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a old church statue | a blurred looking face |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient |
| 2 | **blur** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **melt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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 most likely did it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:52-weathering-and-erosion:t3:2
# text = What most likely did it?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | face |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Wind blowing sand at it from a far desert

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:52-weathering-and-erosion:t3:o1:1
# text = Wind blowing sand at it from a far desert
1	Wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | gerund | Wind *not said here* | sand |  | sand |  | from a far desert | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sand=Patient from desert=Co-Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Slightly acidic rain slowly dissolving it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:52-weathering-and-erosion:t3:o2:1
# text = Slightly acidic rain slowly dissolving it
1	Slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	acidic	acidic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	dissolving	dissolve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dissolve** | gerund | acidic rain | it |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A glacier scraping past it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:52-weathering-and-erosion:t3:o3:1
# text = A glacier scraping past it
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	glacier	glacier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	scraping	scrape	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	past	past	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scrape** | gerund | a glacier *not said here* |  |  |  |  | past glacier | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Earthquakes shaking it again and again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:52-weathering-and-erosion:t3:o4:1
# text = Earthquakes shaking it again and again
1	Earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | gerund | Earthquakes | it |  |  | again |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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