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title: An early hunter 12,000 years ago wants to walk from England to the N… — Glaciers and ice ages · tree and pragmatics
description: An early hunter 12,000 years ago wants to walk from England to the Netherlands. Could he? Test 5 · ★★ of lesson 54 «Glaciers and ice ages» 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 5 · ★★ · Glaciers and ice ages

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An early hunter 12,000 years ago wants to walk from England to the Netherlands. Could he?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** early hunter · **What happens:** want, walk · **To what, where:** England

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This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 54 «Glaciers and ice ages» 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/54-glaciers-and-ice-ages/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* An early hunter 12,000 years ago wants to walk from England to the Netherlands.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:54-glaciers-and-ice-ages:t5:1
# text = An early hunter 12,000 years ago wants to walk from England to the Netherlands.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	12,000	12,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Netherlands	Netherlands	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | a early hunter |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a early hunter *not said here* |  |  | England |  | to the Netherlands *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to netherlands=Result |

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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:* Could he?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:54-glaciers-and-ice-ages:t5:2
# text = Could he?
1	Could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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No, the sea was even deeper then than it is now

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:54-glaciers-and-ice-ages:t5:o1:1
# text = No, the sea was even deeper then than it is now
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the sea |  |  |  | then; now | than it; deep *property* | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, across Doggerland while the sea was low

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:54-glaciers-and-ice-ages:t5:o2:1
# text = Yes, across Doggerland while the sea was low
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	across	across	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Doggerland	Doggerland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the sea |  |  |  |  | low *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only by boat across a wide ocean

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:54-glaciers-and-ice-ages:t5:o3:1
# text = Only by boat across a wide ocean
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	across	across	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, people did not exist then

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:54-glaciers-and-ice-ages:t5:o4:1
# text = No, people did not exist then
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	exist	exist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **exist** | past · do-support | people |  |  |  | then |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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