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title: What would happen to vanilla farms outside Mexico if nobody pollinat… — Food from around the world: how crops… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to vanilla farms outside Mexico if nobody pollinated the flowers by hand? Test 4 · ★★ 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
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# Test 4 · ★★ · Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe

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What would happen to vanilla farms outside Mexico if nobody pollinated the flowers by hand?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** nobody · **What happens:** happen, pollinate · **To what, where:** flowers

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This is test 4 · ★★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe:t4:1
# text = What would happen to vanilla farms outside Mexico if nobody pollinated the flowers by hand?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	vanilla	vanilla	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	nsubj	_	_
11	pollinated	pollinate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | to vanilla farms outside Mexico | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pollinate** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | nobody | the flowers |  |  |  | by hand | 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 {#o1}

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Nothing, vanilla needs no flowers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe:t4:o1:1
# text = Nothing, vanilla needs no flowers
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	vanilla	vanilla	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | Nothing vanilla | no flowers |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot flower=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The flowers would turn into oranges

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe:t4:o2:1
# text = The flowers would turn into oranges
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	oranges	orange	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | the flowers |  |  | oranges |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into orange=Trajectory |

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

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Very few pods would form

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe:t4:o3:1
# text = Very few pods would form
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pods	pod	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	form	form	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | would | few pods |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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They would make twice as many pods

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe:t4:o4:1
# text = They would make twice as many pods
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	pods	pod	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | would | They | many pods |  |  |  | twice *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pod=Product |

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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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