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title: Why can honey keep for years while fruit juice goes off in days? — Honey and the beekeeper's year · tree and pragmatics
description: Why can honey keep for years while fruit juice goes off in days? Test 7 of lesson 344 «Honey and the beekeeper's year» 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 right.
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# Test 7 · Honey and the beekeeper's year

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Why can honey keep for years while fruit juice goes off in days?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** honey, fruit juice · **What happens:** keep, go off

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This is test 7 of lesson 344 «Honey and the beekeeper's year» 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/344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year:t7:1
# text = Why can honey keep for years while fruit juice goes off in days?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | can | honey |  |  |  | year |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go off** | present | fruit juice |  |  |  | day |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Bees add a poison to it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year:t7:o1:1
# text = Bees add a poison to it
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	add	add	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | Bees | a poison | poison |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent poison=Patient to it=Co-Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Honey has so much sugar and so little water that germs cannot grow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year:t7:o2:1
# text = Honey has so much sugar and so little water that germs cannot grow
1	Honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Honey | much sugar and little water |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **grow** | can | germs | little water *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Juice is made in factories

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year:t7:o3:1
# text = Juice is made in factories
1	Juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	factories	factory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | Juice |  | factories |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Honey is kept in the dark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year:t7:o4:1
# text = Honey is kept in the dark
1	Honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present · passive |  | Honey |  | the dark |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in dark=Location |

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