--- title: If one grain of rice gives a thousand, how many would ten grains give? — Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants t… · tree and pragmatics description: If one grain of rice gives a thousand, how many would ten grains give? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 345 «Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world» 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 rig --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world/t4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / [Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world If one grain of rice gives a thousand, how many would ten grains give? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** one grain, ten grains · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** thousand, many This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 345 «Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world» 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/345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world:t4:1 # text = If one grain of rice gives a thousand, how many would ten grains give? 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 10 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 11 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 obj _ _ 12 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 13 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 grains grain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | one grain of rice | a thousand | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme | | 2 | **give** | would | ten grains | many | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Ten thousand ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world:t4:o1:1 # text = Ten thousand 1 Ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} One thousand ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world:t4:o2:1 # text = One thousand 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 list _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Ten ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world:t4:o3:1 # text = Ten 1 Ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} One hundred ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world:t4:o4:1 # text = One hundred 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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