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title: «a book can't save animals, it's just paper» What does Rachel Carson… — Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goo… · tree and pragmatics
description: «a book can't save animals, it's just paper» What does Rachel Carson's story show? Test 6 of lesson 284 «Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 6 · Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maatha…

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«a book can't save animals, it's just paper» What does Rachel Carson's story show?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** book, Rachel · **What happens:** not save, be, do, show · **To what, where:** animals, paper, story show · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 of lesson 284 «Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers» 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/284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers:t6:1
# text = «a book can't save animals, it's just paper» What does Rachel Carson's story show?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
14	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
15	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	Rachel	Rachel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
17	Carson	Carson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
19	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **save** *in a quote* | can | a book | animals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | book | paper |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | present |  | Rachel's story show |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent show=Eventuality |
| 4 | **show** |  | Rachel |  |  |  |  |  | nom show «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Her book was about cooking

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers:t6:o1:1
# text = Her book was about cooking
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Her book |  |  |  |  | about cooking | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Books never change anything in the real world, only in stories

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers:t6:o2:1
# text = Books never change anything in the real world, only in stories
1	Books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **change** | present | Books | anything |  | the real world |  | in stories | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient |

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

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Her book helped get DDT banned and started the eagle comeback

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers:t6:o3:1
# text = Her book helped get DDT banned and started the eagle comeback
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
5	DDT	ddt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	banned	ban	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	comeback	comeback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | past | Her book |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | infinitive | Her book *not said here* | DDT |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ban** | participle | DDT *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 4 | **start** | past | Her book *not said here* | the eagle comeback |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comeback=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Her book banned all birds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers:t6:o4:1
# text = Her book banned all birds
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	banned	ban	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ban** | past | Her book | all birds |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer bird=Theme |

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