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description: A grower in Scotland wants new strawberry plants for next spring fast. Which way works quicker, seeds or runners? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 346 «Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries and grapes grow» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of 
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# Test 11 · ★★ · Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries and grap…

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A grower in Scotland wants new strawberry plants for next spring fast. Which way works quicker, seeds or runners?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** grower, way · **What happens:** want, work · **To what, where:** new strawberry plants, seeds

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 346 «Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries and grapes grow» 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/346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A grower in Scotland wants new strawberry plants for next spring fast.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow:t11:1
# text = A grower in Scotland wants new strawberry plants for next spring fast.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grower	grower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	strawberry	strawberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | a grower in Scotland | new strawberry plants |  |  | for next spring | fast *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot plant=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:* Which way works quicker, seeds or runners?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow:t11:2
# text = Which way works quicker, seeds or runners?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	quicker	quick	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	runners	runner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | which way | seeds or runners |  |  |  | quick *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Planting a whole strawberry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow:t11:o1:1
# text = Planting a whole strawberry
1	Planting	plant	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	strawberry	strawberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plant** | gerund |  | a whole strawberry |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strawberry=Patient |

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

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Runners, because they already make little plants that root

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow:t11:o2:1
# text = Runners, because they already make little plants that root
1	Runners	runner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	already	already	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	det	_	_
10	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Runners | little plants |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plant=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Neither, strawberries never make new plants

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow:t11:o3:1
# text = Neither, strawberries never make new plants
1	Neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **make** | present | strawberries | new plants |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plant=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Seeds, because each strawberry has 200

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow:t11:o4:1
# text = Seeds, because each strawberry has 200
1	Seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	strawberry	strawberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Seeds | 200 |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 200=Patient |

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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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