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title: Identify the person credited with the discovery of an efficient meth… — Food from around the world: how crops… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the person credited with the discovery of an efficient method of pollinating vanilla by hand. Exam question 2 of lesson 289 «Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Exam question 2 · Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe

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Identify the person credited with the discovery of an efficient method of pollinating vanilla by hand.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, efficient method · **What happens:** identify, credit, pollinate, discover · **To what, where:** person, efficient method

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 289 «Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe:e2:1
# text = Identify the person credited with the discovery of an efficient method of pollinating vanilla by hand.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	credited	credit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	discovery	discovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	efficient	efficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	method	method	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	pollinating	pollinate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	vanilla	vanilla	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the person |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent person=Theme |
| 2 | **credit** | participle |  | the person *not said here* |  |  |  | with the discovery of a efficient method | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with discovery=Theme |
| 3 | **pollinate** | gerund | a efficient method *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vanilla *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **discover** |  |  | a efficient method |  |  |  |  | nom discovery «act transitive»: of=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 {#o1}

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An Aztec emperor of Mexico

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe:e2:o1:1
# text = An Aztec emperor of Mexico
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Aztec	Aztec	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Edmond Albius, a twelve-year-old enslaved boy upon the island of Réunion

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe:e2:o2:1
# text = Edmond Albius, a twelve-year-old enslaved boy upon the island of Réunion
1	Edmond	Edmond	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Albius	Albius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	enslaved	enslave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Réunion	Réunion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enslave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A French professor of botany in Paris

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe:e2:o3:1
# text = A French professor of botany in Paris
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	professor	professor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	botany	botany	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Christopher Columbus, upon his first voyage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe:e2:o4:1
# text = Christopher Columbus, upon his first voyage
1	Christopher	Christopher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **voyage** |  | Christopher |  |  |  |  |  | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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