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title: Why might protecting soil help fight global warming? — Soil · tree and pragmatics
description: Why might protecting soil help fight global warming? Test 8 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 right.
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# Test 8 · Soil

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Why might protecting soil help fight global warming?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** protecting soil · **What happens:** protect, help, fight · **To what, where:** global warming

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This is test 8 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t8:1
# text = Why might protecting soil help fight global warming?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	protecting	protect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
7	global	global	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	warming	warming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **protect** | might |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **help** | present | protecting soil |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **fight** | infinitive | protecting soil *not said here* | global warming |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warming=Co-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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Soil cools the air like a fridge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t8:o1:1
# text = Soil cools the air like a fridge
1	Soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cools	cool	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cool** | present | Soil | the air |  |  |  | like a fridge | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent air=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Soil soaks up sunlight and stores it as ice for winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t8:o2:1
# text = Soil soaks up sunlight and stores it as ice for winter
1	Soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	soaks	soak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	stores	store	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **soak up** | present | Soil | sunlight |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sunlight=Source |
| 2 | **store** | present | Soil *not said here* | sunlight |  |  | winter | as ice | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Soils hold more carbon than all plants and the air

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t8:o3:1
# text = Soils hold more carbon than all plants and the air
1	Soils	soil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present | Soils | more carbon |  |  |  | than all plants and the air | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carbon=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Soil makes the Sun weaker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t8:o4:1
# text = Soil makes the Sun weaker
1	Soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	weaker	weak	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Soil | the Sun |  |  |  | weak *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sun=Product |

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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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