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title: A family's house on the Yorkshire coast is 20 metres from the cliff… — Coasts and caves · tree and pragmatics
description: A family's house on the Yorkshire coast is 20 metres from the cliff edge. Roughly when could the cliff reach it? Test 3 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 wron
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# Test 3 · Coasts and caves

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A family's house on the Yorkshire coast is 20 metres from the cliff edge. Roughly when could the cliff reach it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** house, cliff · **What happens:** be, reach · **To what, where:** 20 metres, cliff edge, house

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This is test 3 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A family's house on the Yorkshire coast is 20 metres from the cliff edge.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:55-coasts-and-caves:t3:1
# text = A family's house on the Yorkshire coast is 20 metres from the cliff edge.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Yorkshire	Yorkshire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a family's house on the Yorkshire coast | 20 metres |  | the cliff edge |  |  | tree rules |

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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:* Roughly when could the cliff reach it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:55-coasts-and-caves:t3:2
# text = Roughly when could the cliff reach it?
1	Roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | could | the cliff | house |  |  |  | roughly *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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In about 1,000 years or so

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:55-coasts-and-caves:t3:o1:1
# text = In about 1,000 years or so
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	1,000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Never, cliffs do not move

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:55-coasts-and-caves:t3:o2:1
# text = Never, cliffs do not move
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **move** | present · do-support | cliffs |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Next week, without fail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:55-coasts-and-caves:t3:o3:1
# text = Next week, without fail
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	without	without	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	fail	fail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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In about 10-20 years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:55-coasts-and-caves:t3:o4:1
# text = In about 10-20 years
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	10-20	10-20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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