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title: Thick smog in a big city makes people cough. What is one main cause? — Coal, oil and gas · tree and pragmatics
description: Thick smog in a big city makes people cough. What is one main cause? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 59 «Coal, oil and gas» 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 11 · ★ · Coal, oil and gas

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Thick smog in a big city makes people cough. What is one main cause?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Thick smog, people · **What happens:** make, cough, be · **To what, where:** people, one main cause

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 59 «Coal, oil and gas» 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/59-coal-oil-and-gas/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Thick smog in a big city makes people cough.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:59-coal-oil-and-gas:t11:1
# text = Thick smog in a big city makes people cough.
1	Thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	smog	smog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	cough	cough	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Thick smog in a big city | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cough** | infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «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:* What is one main cause?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:59-coal-oil-and-gas:t11:2
# text = What is one main cause?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | one main cause |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Burning coal and oil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:59-coal-oil-and-gas:t11:o1:1
# text = Burning coal and oil
1	Burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | gerund |  | coal and oil |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coal=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Rainbows after summer rain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:59-coal-oil-and-gas:t11:o2:1
# text = Rainbows after summer rain
1	Rainbows	rainbow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Ocean waves on the coast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:59-coal-oil-and-gas:t11:o3:1
# text = Ocean waves on the coast
1	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	waves	wave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wave** | present | Ocean |  |  | the coast |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on coast=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Too many trees in the parks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:59-coal-oil-and-gas:t11:o4:1
# text = Too many trees in the parks
1	Too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	parks	park	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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