--- title: How could Laki in Iceland kill so many people without burying any to… — Famous eruptions and living with volca… · tree and pragmatics description: How could Laki in Iceland kill so many people without burying any town? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 47 «Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/47-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes/t7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/) / [Famous eruptions and living with volca…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/47-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★★ · Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes How could Laki in Iceland kill so many people without burying any town? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Laki · **What happens:** kill, bury · **To what, where:** many people, town This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 47 «Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/47-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:47-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes:t7:1 # text = How could Laki in Iceland kill so many people without burying any town? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 2 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 3 Laki Laki PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Iceland Iceland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 kill kill VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 without without SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 burying bury VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 12 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 13 det _ _ 13 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kill** | could | Laki in Iceland | many people | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | | 2 | **bury** | gerund | Laki in Iceland *not said here* | any town | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Its noise made everyone deaf ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:47-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes:t7:o1:1 # text = Its noise made everyone deaf 1 Its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 3 obj _ _ 5 deaf deaf ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | Its noise | everyone | | | | deaf *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everyone=Product | | 2 | **noise** | | Its *= it* | | | | | | nom noise «event intransitive»: poss=agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} Its lava flowed across the whole country ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:47-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes:t7:o2:1 # text = Its lava flowed across the whole country 1 Its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 lava lava NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 flowed flow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 across across ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flow** | past | Its lava | | | the whole country | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Its poisonous gas killed the livestock, and people starved ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:47-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes:t7:o3:1 # text = Its poisonous gas killed the livestock, and people starved 1 Its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 poisonous poisonous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 killed kill 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 livestock livestock NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 starved starve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kill** | past | Its poisonous gas | the livestock | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent livestock=Theme | | 2 | **starve** | past | people | | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} It caused a giant tsunami ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:47-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes:t7:o4:1 # text = It caused a giant tsunami 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 caused cause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 tsunami tsunami NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cause** | past | It | a giant tsunami | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition tsunami=Patient | **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. 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