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description: «why's Brazil burning all that cane stuff» What are the leftover crushed stems used for? Test 7 of lesson 347 «Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 7 · Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats

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«why's Brazil burning all that cane stuff» What are the leftover crushed stems used for?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Brazil, leftover · **What happens:** burn, be, crush, use · **To what, where:** cane stuff, stems

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This is test 7 of lesson 347 «Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats» 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/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats:t7:1
# text = «why's Brazil burning all that cane stuff» What are the leftover crushed stems used for?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	nsubj	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	cane	cane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	obj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	leftover	leftover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	crushed	crush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	stems	stem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Brazil | all cane stuff |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **crush** | past | the leftover | stems |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stem=Patient |
| 4 | **use** | participle |  | stems *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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They are thrown into the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats:t7:o1:1
# text = They are thrown into the sea
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | present · passive |  | They |  |  |  | into the sea *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into sea=Result |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They are made into chocolate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats:t7:o2:1
# text = They are made into chocolate
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | They |  | chocolate |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into chocolate=Product |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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They are burned to power the sugar mills

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats:t7:o3:1
# text = They are burned to power the sugar mills
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	mills	mill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | present · passive |  | They |  |  |  | the sugar mills *obl* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They are burned to scare the insects away from the fields

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats:t7:o4:1
# text = They are burned to scare the insects away from the fields
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	scare	scare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | present · passive |  | They |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **scare** | to-infinitive |  | the insects |  |  |  | away *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus insect=Experiencer |

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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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