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title: Smoke rises where forest is being cleared. Which is a likely result? — Amazon giants and tall tales: anaconda… · tree and pragmatics
description: Smoke rises where forest is being cleared. Which is a likely result? Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 158 «Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 10 · ★★ · Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric…

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Smoke rises where forest is being cleared. Which is a likely result?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Smoke · **What happens:** rise, clear, be · **To what, where:** forest, likely result

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 158 «Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru» of the biology 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/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Smoke rises where forest is being cleared.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales:t10:1
# text = Smoke rises where forest is being cleared.
1	Smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
4	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	cleared	clear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | present | Smoke |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **clear** | present · passive |  | forest |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |

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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:* Which is a likely result?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales:t10:2
# text = Which is a likely result?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a likely result |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The river becomes deeper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales:t10:o1:1
# text = The river becomes deeper
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	deeper	deep	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present | the river |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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More rain would fall everywhere, because the open ground would be cooler

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales:t10:o2:1
# text = More rain would fall everywhere, because the open ground would be cooler
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	cooler	cool	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | would | More rain |  |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | would | the open ground |  |  |  |  | cool *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Less rain, because the trees help make the Amazon's rain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales:t10:o3:1
# text = Less rain, because the trees help make the Amazon's rain
1	Less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Less rain | the Amazon's rain |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rain=Product |
| 2 | **rain** |  | the Amazon |  |  |  |  |  | nom rain «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Animals get bigger homes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales:t10:o4:1
# text = Animals get bigger homes
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | Animals | bigger homes |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer home=Stimulus |

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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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