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title: A wetland where many birds nest is drained to build a car park. What… — Caring for the environment · tree and pragmatics
description: A wetland where many birds nest is drained to build a car park. What is the main harm? Test 6 of lesson 57 «Caring for the environment» 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 6 · Caring for the environment

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A wetland where many birds nest is drained to build a car park. What is the main harm?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many birds, main harm · **What happens:** nest, drain, build, be · **To what, where:** wetland, car park

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This is test 6 of lesson 57 «Caring for the environment» 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/57-environment/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A wetland where many birds nest is drained to build a car park.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:57-environment:t6:1
# text = A wetland where many birds nest is drained to build a car park.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wetland	wetland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	nest	nest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	drained	drain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nest** | present | many birds |  |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **drain** | present · passive |  | a wetland |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **build** | to-infinitive |  | a car park |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset park=Product |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is the main harm?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:57-environment:t6:2
# text = What is the main harm?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the main harm |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The air becomes cleaner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:57-environment:t6:o1:1
# text = The air becomes cleaner
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	cleaner	clean	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present | the air |  |  |  |  | clean *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The birds get more food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:57-environment:t6:o2:1
# text = The birds get more food
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | the birds | more food |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus |

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

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The birds lose their habitat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:57-environment:t6:o3:1
# text = The birds lose their habitat
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	habitat	habitat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | present | the birds | birds's habitat |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent habitat=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The car park will be too wet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:57-environment:t6:o4:1
# text = The car park will be too wet
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | the car park |  |  |  |  | wet *property* | tree rules |

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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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