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title: It is given that ice upon land melts, and that floating sea ice like… — Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands · tree and pragmatics
description: It is given that ice upon land melts, and that floating sea ice likewise melts. Determine which of the two shall raise the level of the sea. Exam question 3 of lesson 65 «Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Exam question 3 · Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands

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It is given that ice upon land melts, and that floating sea ice likewise melts. Determine which of the two shall raise the level of the sea.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** land, floating sea ice, you, two · **What happens:** give, melt, float, determine, raise · **To what, where:** It, ice, level

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 65 «Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/65-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands/#e3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* It is given that ice upon land melts, and that floating sea ice likewise melts.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:65-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands:e3:1
# text = It is given that ice upon land melts, and that floating sea ice likewise melts.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	melts	melt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
13	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	melts	melt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient ice=Theme |
| 2 | **melt** | present | land | that ice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient ice=Result |
| 3 | **float** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **melt** | present | floating sea ice |  |  |  |  | likewise *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:* Determine which of the two shall raise the level of the sea.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:65-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands:e3:2
# text = Determine which of the two shall raise the level of the sea.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
6	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **raise** | shall | the two | the level of the sea |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent which=Theme level=Destination |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Neither shall raise it in any degree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:65-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands:e3:o1:1
# text = Neither shall raise it in any degree
1	Neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	raise	raise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | shall |  | it |  | any degree |  | neither *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in degree=Destination |

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

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The melting of ice upon land

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:65-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands:e3:o2:1
# text = The melting of ice upon land
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	melting	melting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **melt** |  |  | ice |  |  |  | upon land | nom melting «process transitive»: of=patient upon=obl |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Both shall raise it equally

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:65-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands:e3:o3:1
# text = Both shall raise it equally
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | shall | Both | it |  |  |  | equally *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The melting of floating sea ice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:65-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands:e3:o4:1
# text = The melting of floating sea ice
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	melting	melting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **melt** |  |  | floating sea ice |  |  |  |  | nom melting «process transitive»: of=patient |

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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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