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title: You go rockpooling at the Bristol Channel at a full Moon. What tide… — Phases, eclipses and tides · tree and pragmatics
description: You go rockpooling at the Bristol Channel at a full Moon. What tide range should you expect? Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Phases, eclipses and tides» of the space 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 8 · ★★ · Phases, eclipses and tides

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You go rockpooling at the Bristol Channel at a full Moon. What tide range should you expect?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** You, tide range · **What happens:** go, rockpool, expect · **To what, where:** Bristol Channel

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This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Phases, eclipses and tides» of the space 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/space/7-phases-eclipses-and-tides/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* You go rockpooling at the Bristol Channel at a full Moon.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:7-phases-eclipses-and-tides:t8:1
# text = You go rockpooling at the Bristol Channel at a full Moon.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	rockpooling	rockpool	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Bristol	Bristol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Channel	Channel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **rockpool** | gerund | You *not said here* |  |  | the Bristol Channel |  | at a full Moon | 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:* What tide range should you expect?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:7-phases-eclipses-and-tides:t8:2
# text = What tide range should you expect?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	range	range	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	expect	expect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expect** | should | tide range |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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No tide at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:7-phases-eclipses-and-tides:t8:o1:1
# text = No tide at all
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A very big one, because it is a spring tide

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:7-phases-eclipses-and-tides:t8:o2:1
# text = A very big one, because it is a spring tide
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | a spring tide |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The same as on any other day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:7-phases-eclipses-and-tides:t8:o3:1
# text = The same as on any other day
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A very small one, because it is a neap tide

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:7-phases-eclipses-and-tides:t8:o4:1
# text = A very small one, because it is a neap tide
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	neap	neap	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | a neap tide |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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**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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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