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title: What would happen if a farmer planted beans in a poor field this year? — Plants deeper: roots and how they drin… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a farmer planted beans in a poor field this year? Test 6 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 wrong.
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# Test 6 · Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push

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What would happen if a farmer planted beans in a poor field this year?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** happen, plant · **To what, where:** poor field, farmer

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This is test 6 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:250-plants-deeper-roots-and-how-they-drink-hold-and-push:t6:1
# text = What would happen if a farmer planted beans in a poor field this year?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	planted	plant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  | a poor field | year |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in field=Location |
| 2 | **plant** | participle |  | a farmer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#o1}

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The soil would turn to sand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:250-plants-deeper-roots-and-how-they-drink-hold-and-push:t6:o1:1
# text = The soil would turn to sand
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | the soil | sand |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sand=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The beans would take all the water for years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:250-plants-deeper-roots-and-how-they-drink-hold-and-push:t6:o2:1
# text = The beans would take all the water for years
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | would | the beans | all water |  |  | year |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |

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

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The soil would get more nitrogen for next year's crops

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:250-plants-deeper-roots-and-how-they-drink-hold-and-push:t6:o3:1
# text = The soil would get more nitrogen for next year's crops
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	nitrogen	nitrogen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | the soil | more nitrogen |  |  |  | for next year's crops | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nitrogen=Theme for crop=Source |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing would grow there ever again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:250-plants-deeper-roots-and-how-they-drink-hold-and-push:t6:o4:1
# text = Nothing would grow there ever again
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | Nothing |  |  | there | again |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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