--- title: Paintings of London show people having fairs on the frozen Thames in… — Glaciers and ice ages · tree and pragmatics description: Paintings of London show people having fairs on the frozen Thames in the 1600s. Which cold time fits? Test 7 · ★★ 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 wrong --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/54-glaciers-and-ice-ages/t7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/) / [Glaciers and ice ages](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/54-glaciers-and-ice-ages/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★★ · Glaciers and ice ages Paintings of London show people having fairs on the frozen Thames in the 1600s. Which cold time fits? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Paintings, people, cold time · **What happens:** show, have, freeze, fit · **To what, where:** people, fairs, frozen Thames This is test 7 · ★★ 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/#t7). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Paintings of London show people having fairs on the frozen Thames in the 1600s. ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:54-glaciers-and-ice-ages:t7:1 # text = Paintings of London show people having fairs on the frozen Thames in the 1600s. 1 Paintings painting NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 having have VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 7 fairs fair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 frozen freeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 11 Thames Thames PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 1600s 1600 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | Paintings of London | | people | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | | 2 | **have** | gerund | people *not said here* | fairs | | the frozen Thames | | in the 1600s | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fair=Patient | | 3 | **freeze** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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. *Sentence 2:* Which cold time fits? ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:54-glaciers-and-ice-ages:t7:2 # text = Which cold time fits? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 3 det _ _ 2 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 fits fit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fit** | present | which cold time | | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} The Cambrian explosion ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:54-glaciers-and-ice-ages:t7:o1:1 # text = The Cambrian explosion 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Cambrian Cambrian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 explosion explosion NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The last great ice age ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:54-glaciers-and-ice-ages:t7:o2:1 # text = The last great ice age 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} The Little Ice Age ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:54-glaciers-and-ice-ages:t7:o3:1 # text = The Little Ice Age 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 Ice Ice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Age Age PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} The Jurassic period ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:54-glaciers-and-ice-ages:t7:o4:1 # text = The Jurassic period 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Jurassic Jurassic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 period period NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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