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title: Which word fits: the Thames meets the tide in a wide mouth where Lon… — Rivers shaping the land · tree and pragmatics
description: Which word fits: the Thames meets the tide in a wide mouth where London's port grew. Test 10 · ★ of lesson 53 «Rivers shaping the land» 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 10 · ★ · Rivers shaping the land

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Which word fits: the Thames meets the tide in a wide mouth where London's port grew.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** word, Thames, port · **What happens:** fit, meet, grow · **To what, where:** tide, wide mouth

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 53 «Rivers shaping the land» 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/53-rivers-shaping-the-land/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:53-rivers-shaping-the-land:t10:1
# text = Which word fits: the Thames meets the tide in a wide mouth where London's port grew.
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fits	fit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Thames	Thames	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	meets	meet	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
15	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fit** | present | which word |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **meet** | present | the Thames | the tide |  | a wide mouth |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tide=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **grow** | past | London's port |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Source spring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:53-rivers-shaping-the-land:t10:o1:1
# text = Source spring
1	Source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	spring	spring	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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Oxbow lake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:53-rivers-shaping-the-land:t10:o2:1
# text = Oxbow lake
1	Oxbow	oxbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Estuary

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:53-rivers-shaping-the-land:t10:o3:1
# text = Estuary
1	Estuary	estuary	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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Delta plain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:53-rivers-shaping-the-land:t10:o4:1
# text = Delta plain
1	Delta	Delta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	plain	plain	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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