Test 9 · ★★ · Farms and where our food comes from

Why do many countries grow lots of rice, wheat or maize?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: many countries · What happens: do, grow · To what, where: lots

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 80 «Farms and where our food comes from» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 grow	advcl
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 countries	amod
4	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	nsubj
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 rice	case
8	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lots	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wheat	punct
10	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lots	appos
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 maize	cc
12	maize	maize	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wheat	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 grow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	many countries not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grow	present	many countries	lots of rice					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lot=Theme

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

Option 1

They need no water at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 need	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	They	no water		all			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme

Option 2

They grow without any soil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	without	without	ADP	_	5 soil	case
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 soil	det
5	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	They					without any soil	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

These crops feed the most people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 crops	det
2	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feed	nsubj
3	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 people	det
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present	this crops		the most people				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient

Option 4

They grow only in very cold places

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 places	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 places	case
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 cold	advmod
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 places	amod
7	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	They			cold places			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location

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