--- title: A bog in Ireland has brown, squashy, rotting plant layers that burn… — Coal, oil and gas · tree and pragmatics description: A bog in Ireland has brown, squashy, rotting plant layers that burn when dried. What is it? Test 9 · ★ 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/59-coal-oil-and-gas/t9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/) / [Coal, oil and gas](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/59-coal-oil-and-gas/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Coal, oil and gas A bog in Ireland has brown, squashy, rotting plant layers that burn when dried. What is it? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** bog, plant layers · **What happens:** have, rot, burn, dry, be · **To what, where:** plant layers This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A bog in Ireland has brown, squashy, rotting plant layers that burn when dried. ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:59-coal-oil-and-gas:t9:1 # text = A bog in Ireland has brown, squashy, rotting plant layers that burn when dried. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bog bog NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 squashy squashy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 rotting rot VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 11 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 layers layer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 burn burn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 16 dried dry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a bog in Ireland | | | | | brown *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **rot** | gerund | a bog in Ireland *not said here* | plant layers | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **burn** | present | plant layers | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **dry** | participle | plant layers *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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. *Sentence 2:* What is it? ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:59-coal-oil-and-gas:t9:2 # text = What is it? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | bog | | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Oil ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:59-coal-oil-and-gas:t9:o1:1 # text = Oil 1 Oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Chalk ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:59-coal-oil-and-gas:t9:o2:1 # text = Chalk 1 Chalk chalk NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Peat ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:59-coal-oil-and-gas:t9:o3:1 # text = Peat 1 Peat peat NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Coal ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:59-coal-oil-and-gas:t9:o4:1 # text = Coal 1 Coal coal NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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