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# Test 5 · ★★ · From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread

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«only one kind of potato, cheap and easy, what's the problem» What did Ireland in the 1840s teach?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, teach · **To what, where:** problem · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 · ★★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread:t5:1
# text = «only one kind of potato, cheap and easy, what's the problem» What did Ireland in the 1840s teach?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	potato	potato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	cheap	cheap	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	obj	_	_
18	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
19	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	1840s	1840	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
23	teach	teach	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | the problem |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | past · do-support |  | the problem |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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One disease can wipe out a crop everyone depends on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread:t5:o1:1
# text = One disease can wipe out a crop everyone depends on
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	wipe	wipe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	crop	crop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	_
9	depends	depend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wipe out** | can | One disease | a crop |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent crop=Source |
| 2 | **depend** | present | everyone | a crop *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Famines happen only with wheat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread:t5:o2:1
# text = Famines happen only with wheat
1	Famines	famine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happen	happen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present | Famines |  |  |  |  | with wheat | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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One kind of potato never gets ill, so it is the safest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread:t5:o3:1
# text = One kind of potato never gets ill, so it is the safest
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	potato	potato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	safest	safe	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **get** | present | One kind of potato |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | kind |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Potatoes grow better without variety

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread:t5:o4:1
# text = Potatoes grow better without variety
1	Potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
4	without	without	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	variety	variety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | Potatoes |  |  |  |  | without variety; well *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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