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title: Which change in the land happens fastest? — Mountains, rivers and seas, and how th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which change in the land happens fastest? Test 2 · ★ 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; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 2 · ★ · Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is shaped

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Which change in the land happens fastest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** change · **What happens:** happen · **To what, where:** fastest

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:43-landforms:t2:1
# text = Which change in the land happens fastest?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	fastest	fast	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present | which change in the land | fastest |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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Rain wearing away a hill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:43-landforms:t2:o1:1
# text = Rain wearing away a hill
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear away** | gerund | Rain *not said here* | a hill |  |  |  | away *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hill=Source |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
An earthquake shaking the ground

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:43-landforms:t2:o2:1
# text = An earthquake shaking the ground
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | gerund | a earthquake *not said here* | the ground |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ground=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A river cutting a deep valley

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:43-landforms:t2:o3:1
# text = A river cutting a deep valley
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | gerund | a river *not said here* | a deep valley |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset valley=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Plates pushing up a mountain range

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:43-landforms:t2:o4:1
# text = Plates pushing up a mountain range
1	Plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	pushing	push	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	range	range	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push up** | gerund | Plates *not said here* | a mountain range |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent range=Theme |

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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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