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title: Why does a seed vault sit inside a frozen mountain? — From field to plate: wheat, flour and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why does a seed vault sit inside a frozen mountain? Test 7 · ★★ 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 right.
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# Test 7 · ★★ · From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread

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Why does a seed vault sit inside a frozen mountain?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do, sit, freeze · **To what, where:** seed vault, frozen mountain

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This is test 7 · ★★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread:t7:1
# text = Why does a seed vault sit inside a frozen mountain?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	vault	vault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | a seed vault |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vault=Eventuality |
| 2 | **sit** | present |  |  |  | a frozen mountain |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside mountain=Location |
| 3 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Cold keeps seeds alive for a very long time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread:t7:o1:1
# text = Cold keeps seeds alive for a very long time
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | Cold | seeds |  |  | time | alive *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Mountains make the seeds bigger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread:t7:o2:1
# text = Mountains make the seeds bigger
1	Mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Mountains | the seeds |  |  |  | big *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset seed=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The cold keeps birds and mice away from the seeds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread:t7:o3:1
# text = The cold keeps birds and mice away from the seeds
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | the cold | birds and mice |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Seeds grow best in ice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread:t7:o4:1
# text = Seeds grow best in ice
1	Seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	2	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	ice	ice	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 | Seeds |  |  | ice |  | well *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ice=Location |

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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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