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title: A river runs through steep mountains and later across a wide flat pl… — Rivers, lakes and the sea up close · tree and pragmatics
description: A river runs through steep mountains and later across a wide flat plain. Where will it most likely make big loops? Test 5 of lesson 64 «Rivers, lakes and the sea up close» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Test 5 · Rivers, lakes and the sea up close

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A river runs through steep mountains and later across a wide flat plain. Where will it most likely make big loops?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** river · **What happens:** run, make · **To what, where:** steep mountains, big loops

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This is test 5 of lesson 64 «Rivers, lakes and the sea up close» 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/64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A river runs through steep mountains and later across a wide flat plain.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea:t5:1
# text = A river runs through steep mountains and later across a wide flat plain.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
9	across	across	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | a river |  |  | steep mountains |  | across a wide flat plain | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through mountain=Trajectory |

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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:* Where will it most likely make big loops?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea:t5:2
# text = Where will it most likely make big loops?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	loops	loop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | future | river | big loops |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material loop=Product |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Right at its source

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea:t5:o1:1
# text = Right at its source
1	Right	right	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	source	source	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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On the wide flat plain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea:t5:o2:1
# text = On the wide flat plain
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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In the steep mountains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea:t5:o3:1
# text = In the steep mountains
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only where it is fastest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea:t5:o4:1
# text = Only where it is fastest
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	fastest	fast	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	nsubj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | 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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