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title: Why did people roast dandelion roots long ago? — Plants deeper: roots and how they drin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did people roast dandelion roots long ago? Test 11 of lesson 250 «Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push» of the biology 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 11 · Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push

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Why did people roast dandelion roots long ago?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** people · **What happens:** roast · **To what, where:** dandelion roots

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This is test 11 of lesson 250 «Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push» of the biology 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/biology/250-plants-deeper-roots-and-how-they-drink-hold-and-push/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:250-plants-deeper-roots-and-how-they-drink-hold-and-push:t11:1
# text = Why did people roast dandelion roots long ago?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	roast	roast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	dandelion	dandelion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roast** | past · do-support | people | dandelion roots |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent root=Patient |

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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 {#o1}

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To make a strong glue for wooden tools

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:250-plants-deeper-roots-and-how-they-drink-hold-and-push:t11:o1:1
# text = To make a strong glue for wooden tools
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	glue	glue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a strong glue |  |  |  | for wooden tools | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent glue=Product for tool=Asset |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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To make a drink like coffee

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:250-plants-deeper-roots-and-how-they-drink-hold-and-push:t11:o2:1
# text = To make a drink like coffee
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a drink |  |  |  | like coffee | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset drink=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To feed their cooking fires at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:250-plants-deeper-roots-and-how-they-drink-hold-and-push:t11:o3:1
# text = To feed their cooking fires at night
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	feed	feed	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | to-infinitive |  | their cooking fires |  |  | night |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Recipient |
| 2 | **fire** |  | their *= they* |  |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To make red paint for their faces

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:250-plants-deeper-roots-and-how-they-drink-hold-and-push:t11:o4:1
# text = To make red paint for their faces
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | red paint |  |  |  | for their faces | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent paint=Product for face=Asset |

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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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