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title: Why do the Twelve Apostles not have twelve stacks standing today? — Coasts and caves · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do the Twelve Apostles not have twelve stacks standing today? Test 11 of lesson 55 «Coasts and caves» 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 11 · Coasts and caves

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Why do the Twelve Apostles not have twelve stacks standing today?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Twelve Apostles, twelve stacks · **What happens:** do, not have, stand · **To what, where:** twelve stacks

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This is test 11 of lesson 55 «Coasts and caves» 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/55-coasts-and-caves/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:55-coasts-and-caves:t11:1
# text = Why do the Twelve Apostles not have twelve stacks standing today?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	Apostles	apostle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	stacks	stack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | the Twelve Apostles *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **have** | present | the Twelve Apostles | twelve stacks |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stack=Patient |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund | twelve stacks *not said here* |  |  |  | today |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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Tourists broke bits off and took them home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:55-coasts-and-caves:t11:o1:1
# text = Tourists broke bits off and took them home
1	Tourists	tourist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	home	home	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break off** | past | Tourists | bits |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | past | Tourists *not said here* | bits *= bit* |  |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They melted in the sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:55-coasts-and-caves:t11:o2:1
# text = They melted in the sun
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	melted	melt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **melt** | past | They |  |  | the sun |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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

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The sea erodes them and some have collapsed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:55-coasts-and-caves:t11:o3:1
# text = The sea erodes them and some have collapsed
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	erodes	erode	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	collapsed	collapse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **erode** | present | the sea | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **collapse** | present · perfect · passive |  | some |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They sank in an earthquake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:55-coasts-and-caves:t11:o4:1
# text = They sank in an earthquake
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | past | They |  |  | a earthquake |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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