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title: «Irish stew with spuds, Irish since forever» What is right? — Food from around the world: how crops… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Irish stew with spuds, Irish since forever» What is right? Test 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 of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 2 · ★★ · Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe

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«Irish stew with spuds, Irish since forever» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Irish stew · **What happens:** be

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This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 289 «Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe» 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/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe:t2:1
# text = «Irish stew with spuds, Irish since forever» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stew	stew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	spuds	spud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	csubj	_	_
8	since	since	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
11	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Irish stew with spuds |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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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Ireland grew potatoes 5,000 years ago

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe:t2:o1:1
# text = Ireland grew potatoes 5,000 years ago
1	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	5,000	5000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | Ireland | potatoes |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location potato=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Potatoes were first farmed in Ireland and taken from there to the rest of the world

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe:t2:o2:1
# text = Potatoes were first farmed in Ireland and taken from there to the rest of the world
1	Potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
4	farmed	farm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **farm** | past · passive |  | Potatoes |  | Ireland |  | first *property* | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | participle |  |  |  | the rest of the world |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from there=Initial\_Location to rest=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Potatoes came from China

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe:t2:o3:1
# text = Potatoes came from China
1	Potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Potatoes |  |  | China |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from china=Initial\_Location |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Potatoes came to Ireland from South America only after Columbus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe:t2:o4:1
# text = Potatoes came to Ireland from South America only after Columbus
1	Potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Potatoes |  | Ireland | South America | after Columbus |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to ireland=Initial\_Location from america=Destination |

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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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