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title: Which of these resources would run out if people used it for a very… — Natural resources and why we must save… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which of these resources would run out if people used it for a very long time? Test 5 · ★ 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 5 · ★ · Natural resources and why we must save them

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Which of these resources would run out if people used it for a very long time?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** resources, people · **What happens:** run out, use · **To what, where:** it

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:47-natural-resources:t5:1
# text = Which of these resources would run out if people used it for a very long time?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	resources	resource	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run out** | would | this resources |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Trajectory |
| 2 | **use** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | people | it |  |  | time |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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Wind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:47-natural-resources:t5:o1:1
# text = Wind
1	Wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sunlight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:47-natural-resources:t5:o2:1
# text = Sunlight
1	Sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Natural gas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:47-natural-resources:t5:o3:1
# text = Natural gas
1	Natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Ocean tides

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:47-natural-resources:t5:o4:1
# text = Ocean tides
1	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	tides	tide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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