--- title: my mate goes "earth's like a few thousand years old innit". What do… — Deep time and the story of life · tree and pragmatics description: my mate goes "earth's like a few thousand years old innit". What do rocks show? Test 9 · ★★★ 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/t9/) [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/) / [Deep time and the story of life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★★★ · Deep time and the story of life my mate goes "earth's like a few thousand years old innit". What do rocks show? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate, earth, rocks · **What happens:** go, be, show This is test 9 · ★★★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* my mate goes "earth's like a few thousand years old innit". ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life:t9:1 # text = my mate goes "earth's like a few thousand years old innit". 1 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 9 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 innit innit NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | my mate | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | earth | | | | | like a old innit | tree rules | 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:* What do rocks show? ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life:t9:2 # text = What do rocks show? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present · do-support | rocks | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} About 4,500 years, from old books ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life:t9:o1:1 # text = About 4,500 years, from old books 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 4,500 4,500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} About 45 million years, from fossils of the first humans ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life:t9:o2:1 # text = About 45 million years, from fossils of the first humans 1 About about ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 45 45 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 compound _ _ 3 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 fossils fossil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 amod _ _ 11 humans human NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} No one can know anything about it ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life:t9:o3:1 # text = No one can know anything about it 1 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 2 det _ _ 2 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obj _ _ 6 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | can | no one | anything | | | | about it | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} About 4.54 billion years, from radioactive dating ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life:t9:o4:1 # text = About 4.54 billion years, from radioactive dating 1 About about ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 4.54 4.54 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 compound _ _ 3 billion billion NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 radioactive radioactive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 dating dating NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ ``` 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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