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title: Grandad: "bloody farm next door ripped out all the trees, now the fi… — Weathering and erosion · tree and pragmatics
description: Grandad: "bloody farm next door ripped out all the trees, now the field washes into the road every storm." Why? Test 7 of lesson 52 «Weathering and erosion» 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
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# Test 7 · Weathering and erosion

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Grandad: "bloody farm next door ripped out all the trees, now the field washes into the road every storm." Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** farm next door, field · **What happens:** rip out, wash · **To what, where:** trees, road

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This is test 7 of lesson 52 «Weathering and erosion» 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/52-weathering-and-erosion/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Grandad: "bloody farm next door ripped out all the trees, now the field washes into the road every storm."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:52-weathering-and-erosion:t7:1
# text = Grandad: "bloody farm next door ripped out all the trees, now the field washes into the road every storm."
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
8	ripped	rip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	washes	wash	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	csubj	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rip out** *in a quote* | participle | farm next door *not said here* | all trees |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
| 2 | **wash** *in a quote* | present | the field |  |  | the road | now |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:52-weathering-and-erosion:t7:2
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Soil grows faster without trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:52-weathering-and-erosion:t7:o1:1
# text = Soil grows faster without trees
1	Soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
4	without	without	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | Soil |  |  |  |  | without trees; fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Without trees, soil erodes many times faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:52-weathering-and-erosion:t7:o2:1
# text = Without trees, soil erodes many times faster
1	Without	without	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	erodes	erode	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **erode** | present | soil |  |  |  | time | without trees | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Roads attract soil like a magnet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:52-weathering-and-erosion:t7:o3:1
# text = Roads attract soil like a magnet
1	Roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	attract	attract	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	magnet	magnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attract** | present | Roads | soil |  |  |  | like a magnet | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Trees cause storms, so removing them is bad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:52-weathering-and-erosion:t7:o4:1
# text = Trees cause storms, so removing them is bad
1	Trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	removing	remove	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | present | Trees | storms |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition storm=Patient |
| 2 | **remove** | gerund |  | storms *= storm* |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | removing |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |

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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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