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title: Which pair is correct? — Natural resources and why we must save… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which pair is correct? Test 9 · ★ 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 9 · ★ · Natural resources and why we must save them

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Which pair is correct?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** pair · **What happens:** be

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:47-natural-resources:t9:1
# text = Which pair is correct?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | which pair |  |  |  |  | correct *property* | tree rules |

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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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Australia and iron ore

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:47-natural-resources:t9:o1:1
# text = Australia and iron ore
1	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ore	ore	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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Antarctica and wheat fields

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:47-natural-resources:t9:o2:1
# text = Antarctica and wheat fields
1	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The Pacific Ocean and coal mines

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:47-natural-resources:t9:o3:1
# text = The Pacific Ocean and coal mines
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	mines	mine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Sahara and great forests

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:47-natural-resources:t9:o4:1
# text = The Sahara and great forests
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	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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