Test 7 · Caring for the environment

Why does cutting down large forests harm the air?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: large forests · What happens: cut down, harm · To what, where: air

This is test 7 of lesson 57 «Caring for the environment» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 cutting	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cutting	aux
3	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 cutting	compound:prt
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 forests	amod
6	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 harm	nsubj
7	harm	harm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cutting	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 air	det
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 harm	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 cutting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut down	present · do-support							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	harm	present	large forests	the air					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus air=Experiencer

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Fewer trees are left to take in carbon dioxide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 trees	amod
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 left	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 left	aux:pass
4	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 take	mark
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 left	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	6 take	compound:prt
8	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dioxide	compound
9	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present · passive		Fewer trees					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	take in	to-infinitive		carbon dioxide					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dioxide=Theme

Option 2

Forests stop the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stop	nsubj
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Forests	the wind					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality wind=Eventuality

Option 3

Trees make the air dirty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur 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 make	obj
5	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp

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

Option 4

Cut trees release clean water that rains on cities

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cut	cut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 trees	amod
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 release	nsubj
3	release	release	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 water	amod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 release	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 rains	nsubj
7	rains	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 water	acl:relcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 cities	case
9	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rains	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	release	present	Cut trees	clean water					vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer water=Source
2	rain	present	clean water			cities			vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

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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