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description: Climbers find shells of sea animals in rocks near the top of a high mountain. How can that be? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 43 «Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is shaped» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 1 · ★ · Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is shaped

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Climbers find shells of sea animals in rocks near the top of a high mountain. How can that be?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Climbers, that · **What happens:** find, be · **To what, where:** shells

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 43 «Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is shaped» of the world 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/world/43-landforms/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Climbers find shells of sea animals in rocks near the top of a high mountain.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:43-landforms:t1:1
# text = Climbers find shells of sea animals in rocks near the top of a high mountain.
1	Climbers	climber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	near	near	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | Climbers | shells of sea animals in rocks near the top of a high mountain |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Topic |

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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:* How can that be?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:43-landforms:t1:2
# text = How can that be?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **can** | can | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Climbers dropped the shells there long ago

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:43-landforms:t1:o1:1
# text = Climbers dropped the shells there long ago
1	Climbers	climber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
6	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | past | Climbers | the shells |  | there |  | ago *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Theme |

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

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The rock formed under the sea and was pushed up as plates collided

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:43-landforms:t1:o2:1
# text = The rock formed under the sea and was pushed up as plates collided
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	collided	collide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | past | the rock |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under sea=Location |
| 2 | **push up** | past · passive | the rock *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP» |
| 3 | **collide** | past | plates |  |  |  |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The sea once reached as high as the mountain top

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:43-landforms:t1:o3:1
# text = The sea once reached as high as the mountain top
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
4	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | the sea |  |  |  |  | as the mountain top; high, once *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Birds carried the shells up the mountain one by one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:43-landforms:t1:o4:1
# text = Birds carried the shells up the mountain one by one
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	flat	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry up** | past | Birds | the shells |  |  |  | by one; the mountain *obl:unmarked* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Theme |

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