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title: In a cartoon pirates fight over a chest of gold coins. What did real… — Food from around the world: how crops… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a cartoon pirates fight over a chest of gold coins. What did real sailors also fight over long ago? Test 8 · ★★ 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 
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# Test 8 · ★★ · Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe

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In a cartoon pirates fight over a chest of gold coins. What did real sailors also fight over long ago?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cartoon pirates, real sailors · **What happens:** fight, do

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This is test 8 · ★★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon pirates fight over a chest of gold coins.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe:t8:1
# text = In a cartoon pirates fight over a chest of gold coins.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	pirates	pirate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fight	fight	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | present | a cartoon pirates |  |  |  |  | over a chest of gold coins | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent over chest=Theme |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What did real sailors also fight over long ago?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe:t8:2
# text = What did real sailors also fight over long ago?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	fight	fight	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	over	over	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fight** | present | real sailors |  |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Potatoes and carrots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe:t8:o1:1
# text = Potatoes and carrots
1	Potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	carrots	carrot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Tins of baked beans

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe:t8:o2:1
# text = Tins of baked beans
1	Tins	tin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	baked	bake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bake** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Bananas from Iceland's farms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe:t8:o3:1
# text = Bananas from Iceland's farms
1	Bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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Spices such as nutmeg and pepper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe:t8:o4:1
# text = Spices such as nutmeg and pepper
1	Spices	spice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	nutmeg	nutmeg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	pepper	pepper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

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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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