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title: Which order is right, oldest first? — Deep time and the story of life · tree and pragmatics
description: Which order is right, oldest first? Test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 58 «Deep time and the story of life» 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 7 · ★★★ · Deep time and the story of life

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Which order is right, oldest first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** order · **What happens:** be

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This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 58 «Deep time and the story of life» 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/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life:t7:1
# text = Which order is right, oldest first?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	obl	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | which order |  |  |  |  | oldest *obl*; right *property* | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Plants on land, first microbes, oxygen, Cambrian explosion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life:t7:o1:1
# text = Plants on land, first microbes, oxygen, Cambrian explosion
1	Plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	_
6	microbes	microbe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Cambrian	Cambrian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	explosion	explosion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Oxygen, plants on land, first microbes, Cambrian explosion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life:t7:o2:1
# text = Oxygen, plants on land, first microbes, Cambrian explosion
1	Oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	advmod	_	_
8	microbes	microbe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Cambrian	cambrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	explosion	explosion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Cambrian explosion, first microbes, plants on land, oxygen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life:t7:o3:1
# text = Cambrian explosion, first microbes, plants on land, oxygen
1	Cambrian	cambrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	explosion	explosion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	_
5	microbes	microbe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	oxygen	oxygen	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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First microbes, oxygen in the air, Cambrian explosion, plants on land

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life:t7:o4:1
# text = First microbes, oxygen in the air, Cambrian explosion, plants on land
1	First	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	amod	_	_
2	microbes	microbe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Cambrian	cambrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	explosion	explosion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
```

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

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