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description: A river is very muddy where it enters the sea, and the land there is flat and grows bigger every year. What is forming? Test 3 · ★ 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 questi
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# Test 3 · ★ · Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is shaped

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A river is very muddy where it enters the sea, and the land there is flat and grows bigger every year. What is forming?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** river, land · **What happens:** be, enter, grow, form · **To what, where:** sea

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A river is very muddy where it enters the sea, and the land there is flat and grows bigger every year.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:43-landforms:t3:1
# text = A river is very muddy where it enters the sea, and the land there is flat and grows bigger every year.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	muddy	muddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	enters	enter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	xcomp	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a river |  |  |  |  | muddy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **enter** | present | river | the sea |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Destination |
| 3 | **be** | present | the land *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **be** |  | the land |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **grow** | present | a river *not said here* |  |  |  | year | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is forming?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:43-landforms:t3:2
# text = What is forming?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	forming	form	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | present · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A glacier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:43-landforms:t3:o1:1
# text = A glacier
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	glacier	glacier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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A delta

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:43-landforms:t3:o2:1
# text = A delta
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	delta	delta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A volcano

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:43-landforms:t3:o3:1
# text = A volcano
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	volcano	volcano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A mountain range

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:43-landforms:t3:o4:1
# text = A mountain range
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	range	range	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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