--- title: Why might a field left bare and ploughed in a dry windy spring lose… — From field to plate: wheat, flour and… · tree and pragmatics description: Why might a field left bare and ploughed in a dry windy spring lose its soil? Test 11 · ★★ 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/t11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / [From field to plate: wheat, flour and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★★ · From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread Why might a field left bare and ploughed in a dry windy spring lose its soil? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** field · **What happens:** leave, plough, lose, soil · **To what, where:** soil This is test 11 · ★★ 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/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread:t11:1 # text = Why might a field left bare and ploughed in a dry windy spring lose its soil? 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 6 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 ploughed plough VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 windy windy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 14 lose lose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ? ? PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | might | a field | | | | | bare *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **plough** | participle | a field *not said here* | | | | | | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **lose** | present | | field's soil | | | spring | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Eventuality | | 4 | **soil** | | field | | | | | | nom soil «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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} Rain makes the soil float up and away ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread:t11:o1:1 # text = Rain makes the soil float up and away 1 Rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 float float VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 xcomp _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 away away ADV RB _ 6 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make up** | present | Rain | the soil | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **float** | present | the soil *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Bare soil slowly turns into hard stone ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread:t11:o2:1 # text = Bare soil slowly turns into hard stone 1 Bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | present | Bare soil | | | hard stone | | slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into stone=Trajectory | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Wind blows the loose dry soil away ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread:t11:o3:1 # text = Wind blows the loose dry soil away 1 Wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 blows blow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 loose loose ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 away away ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blow** | present | Wind | the loose dry soil | | | | away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent soil=Patient | ### Option 4 {#o4} Worms carry it off deep underground ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread:t11:o4:1 # text = Worms carry it off deep underground 1 Worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 off off ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 5 deep deep ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 underground underground ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry off** | present | Worms | it | | | | underground *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | **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. 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