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title: Settlers crossing west in wagons met which mountains as the hardest… — The United States · tree and pragmatics
description: Settlers crossing west in wagons met which mountains as the hardest barrier? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 9 «The United States» 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 · ★★ · The United States

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Settlers crossing west in wagons met which mountains as the hardest barrier?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Settlers · **What happens:** cross, meet · **To what, where:** wagons, mountains

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 9 «The United States» 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/9-the-united-states/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:9-the-united-states:t11:1
# text = Settlers crossing west in wagons met which mountains as the hardest barrier?
1	Settlers	settler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	crossing	cross	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	west	west	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	wagons	wagon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	8	det	_	_
8	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	hardest	hard	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	barrier	barrier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | gerund | Settlers *not said here* |  |  | wagons |  | west *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | past | Settlers | which mountains |  |  |  | as the hardest barrier | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Co-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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The high, young Rocky Mountains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:9-the-united-states:t11:o1:1
# text = The high, young Rocky Mountains
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	Rocky	Rocky	PROPN	NNP	_	6	compound	_	_
6	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The low Appalachians

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:9-the-united-states:t11:o2:1
# text = The low Appalachians
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Appalachians	Appalachian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The hills of Rhode Island

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:9-the-united-states:t11:o3:1
# text = The hills of Rhode Island
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Rhode	Rhode	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Great Plains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:9-the-united-states:t11:o4:1
# text = The Great Plains
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Plains	Plain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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