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description: shop sells "ethical" phones — why might people check where the cobalt came from? Test 9 · ★★ 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 right.
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# Test 9 · ★★ · Metals, mining and what they cost

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shop sells "ethical" phones — why might people check where the cobalt came from?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** shop, people, cobalt · **What happens:** sell, check, come · **To what, where:** ethical phones

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This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:t9:1
# text = shop sells "ethical" phones — why might people check where the cobalt came from?
1	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sells	sell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	ethical	ethical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	check	check	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cobalt	cobalt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | present | shop | ethical phones |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Theme |
| 2 | **check** | might | people |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | the cobalt |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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Cobalt is only used in toys

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:t9:o1:1
# text = Cobalt is only used in toys
1	Cobalt	cobalt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · passive |  | Cobalt |  | toys |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Cobalt makes phones too heavy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:t9:o2:1
# text = Cobalt makes phones too heavy
1	Cobalt	cobalt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Some cobalt comes from mines where children have been found working

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:t9:o3:1
# text = Some cobalt comes from mines where children have been found working
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	cobalt	cobalt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	mines	mine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | some cobalt |  |  | mines |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from mine=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **find** | present · perfect · passive |  | children |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **work** | gerund | children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cobalt from some places is fake and makes the phones break after a month

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:t9:o4:1
# text = Cobalt from some places is fake and makes the phones break after a month
1	Cobalt	cobalt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Cobalt from some places |  |  |  |  | fake *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | Cobalt from some places *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **break** | present | the phones |  |  |  | month |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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