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description: Which of the following statements most accurately characterises silage? Exam question 2 of lesson 349 «A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Exam question 2 · A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter f…

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises silage?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** follow, characteris · **To what, where:** silage

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 349 «A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding:e2:1
# text = Which of the following statements most accurately characterises silage?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	statements	statement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	silage	silage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **characteris** | present |  | silage |  |  |  | of the following statements; accurately *property* | tree rules |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Manure stored over winter for use as fertiliser

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding:e2:o1:1
# text = Manure stored over winter for use as fertiliser
1	Manure	manure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	stored	store	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	fertiliser	fertiliser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **store** | participle |  | Manure *not said here* |  |  | winter | for use; as fertiliser | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Grass dried in the sun and compressed into bales

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding:e2:o2:1
# text = Grass dried in the sun and compressed into bales
1	Grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	compressed	compress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	bales	bale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry** | participle |  | Grass *not said here* |  | the sun |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **compress** | participle |  |  |  | bales |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into bale=Product |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Grass sealed from the air so that bacteria convert its sugars into acid, preserving it for months

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding:e2:o3:1
# text = Grass sealed from the air so that bacteria convert its sugars into acid, preserving it for months
1	Grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	sealed	seal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	convert	convert	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	sugars	sugar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
15	preserving	preserve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seal** | participle |  | Grass *not said here* |  | the air |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **convert** | present | bacteria | air's sugars |  |  |  | into acid *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient into acid=Result |
| 3 | **preserve** | gerund |  | acid |  |  | month |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The dry stalks remaining after the harvest of grain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding:e2:o4:1
# text = The dry stalks remaining after the harvest of grain
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stalks	stalk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	remaining	remain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | gerund | the dry stalks *not said here* |  |  |  | after the harvest of grain |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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