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title: Why do farmers plant new banana plants from shoots and not from seeds? — Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, f… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do farmers plant new banana plants from shoots and not from seeds? Test 12 · ★★ of lesson 288 «Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds» 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
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# Test 12 · ★★ · Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and s…

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Why do farmers plant new banana plants from shoots and not from seeds?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** farmers · **What happens:** plant · **To what, where:** new banana plants, shoots

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This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 288 «Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds» 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/288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds:t12:1
# text = Why do farmers plant new banana plants from shoots and not from seeds?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	plant	plant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	banana	banana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	shoots	shoot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plant** | present · do-support | farmers | new banana plants |  | shoots and seeds |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=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 {#o1}

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Banana seeds are poisonous

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds:t12:o1:1
# text = Banana seeds are poisonous
1	Banana	banana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Banana seeds |  |  |  |  | poisonous *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Shoots are cheaper than water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds:t12:o2:1
# text = Shoots are cheaper than water
1	Shoots	shoot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Shoots |  |  |  |  | than water; cheap *property* | tree rules |

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

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Shop bananas have no proper seeds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds:t12:o3:1
# text = Shop bananas have no proper seeds
1	Shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
5	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Shop bananas | no proper seeds |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Seeds grow only in Mexico

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds:t12:o4:1
# text = Seeds grow only in Mexico
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	only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	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 |  |  | Mexico |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mexico=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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