--- title: A builder wants a stone that started as limestone and was changed by… — Rocks, minerals and fossils · tree and pragmatics description: A builder wants a stone that started as limestone and was changed by heat and pressure. Which should he ask for? 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Which should he ask for? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** builder, stone, heat · **What happens:** want, start, change, ask · **To what, where:** stone This is test 4 of lesson 61 «Rocks, minerals and fossils» 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/61-rocks-minerals-fossils/#t4). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A builder wants a stone that started as limestone and was changed by heat and pressure. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:61-rocks-minerals-fossils:t4:1 # text = A builder wants a stone that started as limestone and was changed by heat and pressure. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 builder builder NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 limestone limestone NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 pressure pressure NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | present | a builder | a stone | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stone=Theme | | 2 | **start** | past | a stone | | | | | as limestone | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **change** | past · passive | heat and pressure | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. *Sentence 2:* Which should he ask for? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:61-rocks-minerals-fossils:t4:2 # text = Which should he ask for? 1 Which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 2 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | should | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Basalt ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:61-rocks-minerals-fossils:t4:o1:1 # text = Basalt 1 Basalt basalt NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Granite ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:61-rocks-minerals-fossils:t4:o2:1 # text = Granite 1 Granite granite NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Sandstone ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:61-rocks-minerals-fossils:t4:o3:1 # text = Sandstone 1 Sandstone sandstone NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Marble ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:61-rocks-minerals-fossils:t4:o4:1 # text = Marble 1 Marble marble NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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