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title: Which list goes from the most to the least in the air? — Air and why we need it · tree and pragmatics
description: Which list goes from the most to the least in the air? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 17 «Air and why we need it» of the world 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 · ★ · Air and why we need it

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Which list goes from the most to the least in the air?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** list · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** most

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 17 «Air and why we need it» of the world 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/world/17-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:17-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide:t9:1
# text = Which list goes from the most to the least in the air?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 | **go** | present | which list |  |  | the most to the least |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from most=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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Oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:17-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide:t9:o1:1
# text = Oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide
1	Oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	nitrogen	nitrogen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Carbon dioxide, oxygen, nitrogen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:17-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide:t9:o2:1
# text = Carbon dioxide, oxygen, nitrogen
1	Carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	nitrogen	nitrogen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

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Nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:17-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide:t9:o3:1
# text = Nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide
1	Nitrogen	Nitrogen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:17-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide:t9:o4:1
# text = Oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen
1	Oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	nitrogen	nitrogen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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