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title: Which is a way soil gets degraded? — Soil · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is a way soil gets degraded? Test 10 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.
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# Test 10 · Soil

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Which is a way soil gets degraded?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** way soil

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This is test 10 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t10:1
# text = Which is a way soil gets degraded?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	gets	get	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	degraded	degrade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · passive |  | a way soil |  |  |  | degrade *property* | tree rules |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Rain soaking in slowly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t10:o1:1
# text = Rain soaking in slowly
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	soaking	soak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	in	in	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **soak in** | gerund | Rain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Leaves falling and rotting on top

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t10:o2:1
# text = Leaves falling and rotting on top
1	Leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	rotting	rot	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	conj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | gerund | Leaves *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rot** | gerund | Leaves *not said here* |  |  | top |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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

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Erosion, salt, pollution or overuse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t10:o3:1
# text = Erosion, salt, pollution or overuse
1	Erosion	erosion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	pollution	pollution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	overuse	overuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Earthworms digging lots of tunnels

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t10:o4:1
# text = Earthworms digging lots of tunnels
1	Earthworms	earthworm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	digging	dig	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig** | gerund | Earthworms *not said here* | lots of tunnels |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lot=Theme |

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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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