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title: Which is the best way to keep the fish in a lake for the future? — Natural resources and why we must save… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is the best way to keep the fish in a lake for the future? Test 3 · ★ 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.
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# Test 3 · ★ · Natural resources and why we must save them

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Which is the best way to keep the fish in a lake for the future?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, keep · **To what, where:** best way, fish, lake

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 47 «Natural resources and why we must save them» 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/47-natural-resources/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:47-natural-resources:t3:1
# text = Which is the best way to keep the fish in a lake for the future?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the best way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  | the fish |  | a lake for the future |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fish=Theme in lake=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Catch fewer fish than are born each year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:47-natural-resources:t3:o1:1
# text = Catch fewer fish than are born each year
1	Catch	catch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | imperative | you *not said here* | fewer fish |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
| 2 | **bear** | present · passive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Catch as many fish as possible now while they are there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:47-natural-resources:t3:o2:1
# text = Catch as many fish as possible now while they are there
1	Catch	catch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | imperative | you *not said here* | many fish |  |  | now |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | fish |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Never feed the fish anything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:47-natural-resources:t3:o3:1
# text = Never feed the fish anything
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	feed	feed	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **feed** | imperative | you *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent anything=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Pour fresh water into the lake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:47-natural-resources:t3:o4:1
# text = Pour fresh water into the lake
1	Pour	pour	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pour** | imperative | you *not said here* | fresh water |  | the lake |  |  | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme into lake=Destination |

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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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