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description: Walking in Scotland, you find a wide valley with a flat floor and steep sides like the letter U, but no ice. What most likely made it? Test 1 · ★★ 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 question a
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# Test 1 · ★★ · Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands

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Walking in Scotland, you find a wide valley with a flat floor and steep sides like the letter U, but no ice. What most likely made it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** walk, find, make · **To what, where:** Scotland, wide valley, valley

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This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 65 «Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands» 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/65-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Walking in Scotland, you find a wide valley with a flat floor and steep sides like the letter U, but no ice.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:65-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands:t1:1
# text = Walking in Scotland, you find a wide valley with a flat floor and steep sides like the letter U, but no ice.
1	Walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	U	U	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  | Scotland |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in scotland=Trajectory |
| 2 | **find** | present | you | a wide valley |  |  |  | with a flat floor and steep sides like the letter; no ice *obl* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent valley=Topic |

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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 most likely made it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:65-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands:t1:2
# text = What most likely made it?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	obl	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past |  | valley |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A glacier during the ice age

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:65-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands:t1:o1:1
# text = A glacier during the ice age
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	glacier	glacier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	during	during	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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People digging for coal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:65-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands:t1:o2:1
# text = People digging for coal
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	digging	dig	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig** | gerund | People *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for coal | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for coal=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A small stream over a few years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:65-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands:t1:o3:1
# text = A small stream over a few years
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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An earthquake that split the land

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:65-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands:t1:o4:1
# text = An earthquake that split the land
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **split** | past | a earthquake | the land |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient |

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