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title: A river below an old mine runs orange and fish have died. What most… — Metals, mining and what they cost · tree and pragmatics
description: A river below an old mine runs orange and fish have died. What most likely happened? Test 5 · ★★ of lesson 60 «Metals, mining and what they cost» 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 5 · ★★ · Metals, mining and what they cost

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A river below an old mine runs orange and fish have died. What most likely happened?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** river, fish · **What happens:** run, die, happen · **To what, where:** orange

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This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 60 «Metals, mining and what they cost» 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/60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A river below an old mine runs orange and fish have died.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:t5:1
# text = A river below an old mine runs orange and fish have died.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	below	below	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	mine	mine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	orange	orange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | a river below a old mine | orange |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme orange=Trajectory |
| 2 | **die** | present · perfect | fish |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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 most likely happened?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:t5:2
# text = What most likely happened?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The sun dried the river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:t5:o1:1
# text = The sun dried the river
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dried	dry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry** | past | the sun | the river |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient river=Result |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The fish turned the water orange

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:t5:o2:1
# text = The fish turned the water orange
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	orange	orange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | the fish | the water orange |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent orange=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Rain makes rivers orange every year in the autumn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:t5:o3:1
# text = Rain makes rivers orange every year in the autumn
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Rain | rivers |  |  | autumn; year | orange *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset river=Product |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Acid and toxic metals from the mine poisoned it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:t5:o4:1
# text = Acid and toxic metals from the mine poisoned it
1	Acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	toxic	toxic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	metals	metal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mine	mine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	poisoned	poison	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **poison** | past | Acid and toxic metals from the mine | mine |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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