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title: Why did Britain once have so many factories in towns near coal mines? — Coal, oil and gas · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did Britain once have so many factories in towns near coal mines? Test 7 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 7 · ★ · Coal, oil and gas

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Why did Britain once have so many factories in towns near coal mines?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, have · **To what, where:** Britain, many factories, towns

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:59-coal-oil-and-gas:t7:1
# text = Why did Britain once have so many factories in towns near coal mines?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
3	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	factories	factory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	near	near	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	mines	mine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | Britain |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent britain=Eventuality |
| 2 | **have** | present |  | many factories |  | towns near coal mines |  | once *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent factory=Patient |

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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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Coal made the towns warm even in summer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:59-coal-oil-and-gas:t7:o1:1
# text = Coal made the towns warm even in summer
1	Coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
6	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Coal | the towns |  |  | summer | warm *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset town=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Coal kept the rain off the factory roofs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:59-coal-oil-and-gas:t7:o2:1
# text = Coal kept the rain off the factory roofs
1	Coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	factory	factory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	roofs	roof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | Coal | the rain |  |  |  | off the factory roofs | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Theme |

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

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Coal powered the Industrial Revolution

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:59-coal-oil-and-gas:t7:o3:1
# text = Coal powered the Industrial Revolution
1	Coal	Coal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	powered	power	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Industrial	industrial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Revolution	Revolution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **power** | past | Coal | the Industrial Revolution |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Coal smelled nice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:59-coal-oil-and-gas:t7:o4:1
# text = Coal smelled nice
1	Coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	smelled	smell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smell** | past | Coal |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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