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title: A hillside lost all its trees. What is likely to happen in heavy rain? — Trees and forests through the year · tree and pragmatics
description: A hillside lost all its trees. What is likely to happen in heavy rain? Test 7 of lesson 76 «Trees and forests through the year» 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 7 · Trees and forests through the year

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A hillside lost all its trees. What is likely to happen in heavy rain?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** hillside · **What happens:** lose, be, happen · **To what, where:** trees, heavy rain

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This is test 7 of lesson 76 «Trees and forests through the year» 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/76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A hillside lost all its trees.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year:t7:1
# text = A hillside lost all its trees.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hillside	hillside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | participle | a hillside *not said here* | hillside's trees |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Eventuality |

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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 likely to happen in heavy rain?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year:t7:2
# text = What is likely to happen in heavy rain?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **happen** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | heavy rain |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in rain=Location |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Nothing, trees do not affect soil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year:t7:o1:1
# text = Nothing, trees do not affect soil
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	affect	affect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **affect** | present · do-support | Nothing trees | soil |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus soil=Experiencer |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Soil will wash away down the hill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year:t7:o2:1
# text = Soil will wash away down the hill
1	Soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash away** | future | Soil |  |  |  |  | down the hill; away *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The soil will hold more water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year:t7:o3:1
# text = The soil will hold more water
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | future | the soil | more water |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The hill will grow new rocks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year:t7:o4:1
# text = The hill will grow new rocks
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | future | the hill | new rocks |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rock=Theme |

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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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