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title: Sam's garden soil turns into a puddle that won't drain after rain. W… — Soil · tree and pragmatics
description: Sam's garden soil turns into a puddle that won't drain after rain. What does it probably have too much of? Test 7 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 7 · Soil

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Sam's garden soil turns into a puddle that won't drain after rain. What does it probably have too much of?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** garden soil, puddle, Sam, soil · **What happens:** turn, not drain, soil, have · **To what, where:** puddle, much

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This is test 7 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Sam's garden soil turns into a puddle that won't drain after rain.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t7:1
# text = Sam's garden soil turns into a puddle that won't drain after rain.
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	puddle	puddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
10	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	drain	drain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | Sam's garden soil |  |  | a puddle |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into puddle=Trajectory |
| 2 | **not** **drain** | future | a puddle |  |  |  | after rain |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source |
| 3 | **soil** |  | Sam |  |  |  |  |  | nom soil «state 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.

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*Sentence 2:* What does it probably have too much of?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t7:2
# text = What does it probably have too much of?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present · do-support | soil | much |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Earthworm tunnels

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t7:o1:1
# text = Earthworm tunnels
1	Earthworm	earthworm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Clay

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t7:o2:1
# text = Clay
1	Clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Air spaces

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t7:o3:1
# text = Air spaces
1	Air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	spaces	space	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Rich humus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t7:o4:1
# text = Rich humus
1	Rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	humus	humus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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