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title: What would happen to a barn of grain with no cats and no traps? — From field to plate: wheat, flour and… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to a barn of grain with no cats and no traps? Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 286 «From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread» 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 10 · ★★ · From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread

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What would happen to a barn of grain with no cats and no traps?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** happen

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 286 «From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread» 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/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread:t10:1
# text = What would happen to a barn of grain with no cats and no traps?
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	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	traps	trap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	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 |  |  |  |  |  | to a barn of grain; with no cats and no traps | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 grain would sprout and grow into tall wheat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread:t10:o1:1
# text = The grain would sprout and grow into tall wheat
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sprout	sprout	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sprout** | would | the grain |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 2 | **grow** | infinitive | the grain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into tall wheat *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into wheat=Result |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The grain would last longer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread:t10:o2:1
# text = The grain would last longer
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | would | the grain |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Birds would guard it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread:t10:o3:1
# text = Birds would guard it
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	guard	guard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guard** | would | Birds | it |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Mice and rats would eat and spoil much of it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread:t10:o4:1
# text = Mice and rats would eat and spoil much of it
1	Mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	spoil	spoil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | would | Mice and rats |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spoil** | infinitive | Mice and rats *not said here* | much of it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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