--- title: State the proportion of the Earth's water that is fresh water fit fo… — Natural resources and why we must save… · tree and pragmatics description: State the proportion of the Earth's water that is fresh water fit for drinking. Exam question 4 of lesson 47 «Natural resources and why we must save them» 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 right --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/47-natural-resources/e4/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [Natural resources and why we must save…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/47-natural-resources/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Natural resources and why we must save them State the proportion of the Earth's water that is fresh water fit for drinking. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, water · **What happens:** state, be, fit, drink · **To what, where:** proportion, fresh water This is exam question 4 of lesson 47 «Natural resources and why we must save them» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/47-natural-resources/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:47-natural-resources:e4:1 # text = State the proportion of the Earth's water that is fresh water fit for drinking. 1 State state VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 proportion proportion NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 13 fit fit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 14 for for SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 drinking drink VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **state** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | the proportion of the Earth's water | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent proportion=Topic | | 2 | **is a** | present | | fresh water | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fit** | present | the Earth's water | | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **drink** | gerund | the Earth's water *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Only a very small part ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:47-natural-resources:e4:o1:1 # text = Only a very small part 1 Only only ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 very very ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The entirety ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:47-natural-resources:e4:o2:1 # text = The entirety 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 entirety entirety NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} The greater part ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:47-natural-resources:e4:o3:1 # text = The greater part 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 greater great ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 amod _ _ 3 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Approximately one half ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:47-natural-resources:e4:o4:1 # text = Approximately one half 1 Approximately approximately ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 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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