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title: Which one does the most to keep soil airy and well drained in a gard… — Soil and what lives in it · tree and pragmatics
description: Which one does the most to keep soil airy and well drained in a garden? Test 7 of lesson 63 «Soil and what lives in it» 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 7 · Soil and what lives in it

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Which one does the most to keep soil airy and well drained in a garden?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** one · **What happens:** do, keep, drain · **To what, where:** most, soil, garden

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This is test 7 of lesson 63 «Soil and what lives in it» 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/63-soil-and-what-lives-in-it/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:63-soil-and-what-lives-in-it:t7:1
# text = Which one does the most to keep soil airy and well drained in a garden?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
8	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	airy	airy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	drained	drain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | which one | the most |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Eventuality |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | which one *not said here* | soil |  |  |  | airy *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Theme |
| 3 | **drain** | participle | which one *not said here* |  |  | a garden |  | well *property* | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source |

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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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Earthworms digging tunnels

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:63-soil-and-what-lives-in-it:t7:o1:1
# text = Earthworms digging tunnels
1	Earthworms	earthworm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	digging	dig	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig** | gerund | Earthworms *not said here* | tunnels |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tunnel=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Snails eating leaves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:63-soil-and-what-lives-in-it:t7:o2:1
# text = Snails eating leaves
1	Snails	snail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | gerund | Snails *not said here* | leaves |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Bees visiting flowers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:63-soil-and-what-lives-in-it:t7:o3:1
# text = Bees visiting flowers
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	visiting	visit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | gerund | Bees *not said here* | flowers |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Co-Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Birds pulling up worms to eat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:63-soil-and-what-lives-in-it:t7:o4:1
# text = Birds pulling up worms to eat
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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