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title: What lesson does the Aral Sea teach about taking water from rivers? — Islands, seas and lakes · tree and pragmatics
description: What lesson does the Aral Sea teach about taking water from rivers? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 6 «Islands, seas and lakes» 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 9 · ★ · Islands, seas and lakes

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What lesson does the Aral Sea teach about taking water from rivers?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lesson, Aral Sea · **What happens:** do, teach, take · **To what, where:** water, rivers

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 6 «Islands, seas and lakes» 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/6-islands-seas-and-lakes/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:6-islands-seas-and-lakes:t9:1
# text = What lesson does the Aral Sea teach about taking water from rivers?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Aral	Aral	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	teach	teach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | what lesson |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | the Aral Sea |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | the Aral Sea *not said here* | water |  | rivers |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from river=Initial\_Location |

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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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Rivers always refill a lake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:6-islands-seas-and-lakes:t9:o1:1
# text = Rivers always refill a lake
1	Rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	refill	refill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refill** | present | Rivers | a lake |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Deserts make more rain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:6-islands-seas-and-lakes:t9:o2:1
# text = Deserts make more rain
1	Deserts	desert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Deserts | more rain |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rain=Product |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Take too much and a whole sea can die

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:6-islands-seas-and-lakes:t9:o3:1
# text = Take too much and a whole sea can die
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | much |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme |
| 2 | **die** | can | a whole sea |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Lakes grow when farms use water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:6-islands-seas-and-lakes:t9:o4:1
# text = Lakes grow when farms use water
1	Lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
4	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | Lakes |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | present | farms | water |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |

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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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