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title: A farmer grows wheat in the same field every year and the wheat gets… — Nuts, beans, seeds and spices · tree and pragmatics
description: A farmer grows wheat in the same field every year and the wheat gets weaker. What could help? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 348 «Nuts, beans, seeds and spices» 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 wrong.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Nuts, beans, seeds and spices

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A farmer grows wheat in the same field every year and the wheat gets weaker. What could help?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** farmer, wheat · **What happens:** grow, get, help · **To what, where:** wheat, same field

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 348 «Nuts, beans, seeds and spices» 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/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A farmer grows wheat in the same field every year and the wheat gets weaker.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices:t9:1
# text = A farmer grows wheat in the same field every year and the wheat gets weaker.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	weaker	weak	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | a farmer | wheat |  | the same field | year |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wheat=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | present | the wheat |  |  |  |  | weak *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 could help?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices:t9:2
# text = What could help?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | could |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Painting the soil black

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices:t9:o1:1
# text = Painting the soil black
1	Painting	paint	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | gerund |  | the soil |  |  |  | black *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent soil=Destination |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Growing wheat twice a year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices:t9:o2:1
# text = Growing wheat twice a year
1	Growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | gerund |  | wheat |  |  | year | twice *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wheat=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Planting the wheat deeper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices:t9:o3:1
# text = Planting the wheat deeper
1	Planting	plant	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	deeper	deep	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

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

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Growing beans in that field one year, to enrich the soil with nitrogen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices:t9:o4:1
# text = Growing beans in that field one year, to enrich the soil with nitrogen
1	Growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
2	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	enrich	enrich	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	nitrogen	nitrogen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | gerund |  | beans |  | that field | year |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bean=Theme |
| 2 | **enrich** | to-infinitive | Growing | the soil |  |  |  | with nitrogen | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent soil=Destination with nitrogen=Theme |

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