--- title: kid at school: "soil's just dead dirt, nothing lives in it lol" — wh… — Soil · tree and pragmatics description: kid at school: "soil's just dead dirt, nothing lives in it lol" — what's true? Test 1 of lesson 56 «Soil» 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/56-soil/t1/) [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/) / [Soil](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/56-soil/) / t1 # Test 1 · Soil kid at school: "soil's just dead dirt, nothing lives in it lol" — what's true? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** nothing, kid · **What happens:** live, be · **To what, where:** dirt · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 1 of lesson 56 «Soil» 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/56-soil/#t1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t1:1 # text = kid at school: "soil's just dead dirt, nothing lives in it lol" — what's true? 1 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 just just ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 dirt dirt NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 13 nsubj _ _ 13 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ _ 16 lol lol INTJ UH _ 13 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 — - PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 21 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ? ? PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** *in a quote* | present | nothing | | | dirt | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location | | 2 | **is** | present | kid at school and soil's dead dirt | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | 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} Soil only lives in spring ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t1:o1:1 # text = Soil only lives in spring 1 Soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 only only ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | Soil | | | | spring | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} A handful of healthy soil has more living things than people on Earth ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t1:o2:1 # text = A handful of healthy soil has more living things than people on Earth 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 handful handful NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 healthy healthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 amod _ _ 8 living living ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 than than ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a handful of healthy soil | more living things | | | | than people on Earth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | ### Option 3 {#o3} Only worms live in soil, nothing else at all, and only a handful of them ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t1:o3:1 # text = Only worms live in soil, nothing else at all, and only a handful of them 1 Only only ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 5 conj _ _ 8 else else ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 only only ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 handful handful NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | worms | a handful of them | | soil | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in soil=Location | ### Option 4 {#o4} He's right, soil is lifeless ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t1:o4:1 # text = He's right, soil is lifeless 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 lifeless lifeless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | He | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | soil | | | | | lifeless *property* | tree rules | **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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