Test 8 · Soil

Why might protecting soil help fight global warming?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: protecting soil · What happens: protect, help, fight · To what, where: global warming

This is test 8 of lesson 56 «Soil» of the geography 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 protecting	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 protecting	aux
3	protecting	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 soil	amod
4	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 help	nsubj
5	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 help	xcomp
7	global	global	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 warming	amod
8	warming	warming	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fight	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	protect	might			vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	help	present	protecting soil		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	fight	infinitive	protecting soil not said here	global warming	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warming=Co-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.

The options

Option 1

Soil cools the air like a fridge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cools	nsubj
2	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 air	det
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cools	obj
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 fridge	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fridge	det
7	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cools	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool	present	Soil	the air				like a fridge	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent air=Patient

Option 2

Soil soaks up sunlight and stores it as ice for winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 soaks	nsubj
2	soaks	soak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 soaks	compound:prt
4	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 soaks	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stores	cc
6	stores	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 soaks	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stores	obj
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 ice	case
9	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stores	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 winter	case
11	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stores	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soak up	present	Soil	sunlight					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sunlight=Source
2	store	present	Soil not said here	sunlight			winter	as ice	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Soils hold more carbon than all plants and the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soils	soil	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hold	nsubj
2	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 carbon	amod
4	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hold	obj
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 plants	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 plants	det
7	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hold	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 air	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 air	det
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plants	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	Soils	more carbon				than all plants and the air	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carbon=Theme

Option 4

Soil makes the Sun weaker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sun	det
4	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Soil	the Sun				weak property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sun=Product

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