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title: A teacher stretches a 4.5 km rope, 1 metre for every million years.… — Deep time and the story of life · tree and pragmatics
description: A teacher stretches a 4.5 km rope, 1 metre for every million years. About how long is the part since the dinosaurs died? Test 8 · ★★★ 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 o
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# Test 8 · ★★★ · Deep time and the story of life

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A teacher stretches a 4.5 km rope, 1 metre for every million years. About how long is the part since the dinosaurs died?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** teacher, dinosaurs · **What happens:** stretch, be, die · **To what, where:** km rope, part

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This is test 8 · ★★★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A teacher stretches a 4.5 km rope, 1 metre for every million years.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life:t8:1
# text = A teacher stretches a 4.5 km rope, 1 metre for every million years.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stretches	stretch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	4.5	4.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	metre	metre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch** | present | a teacher | a km rope |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rope=Patient |

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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:* About how long is the part since the dinosaurs died?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life:t8:2
# text = About how long is the part since the dinosaurs died?
1	About	about	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the part |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **die** | past | the dinosaurs | the part *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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About 2 km of rope

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life:t8:o1:1
# text = About 2 km of rope
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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About 66 centimetres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life:t8:o2:1
# text = About 66 centimetres
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	66	66	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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About 66 metres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life:t8:o3:1
# text = About 66 metres
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	66	66	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
About 4 km, almost all of it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life:t8:o4:1
# text = About 4 km, almost all of it
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

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