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title: «left the gate open, who cares, it's just a field» What could happen? — A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking,… · tree and pragmatics
description: «left the gate open, who cares, it's just a field» What could happen? Test 9 · ★★ 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 choice
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# Test 9 · ★★ · A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter f…

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«left the gate open, who cares, it's just a field» What could happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** gate, field · **What happens:** leave, care, be, happen · **To what, where:** gate, field

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This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 349 «A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding» 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/349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding:t9:1
# text = «left the gate open, who cares, it's just a field» What could happen?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	cares	care	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** *in a quote* | past |  | the gate |  |  |  | open *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Theme |
| 2 | **care** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | gate | a field |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **happen** | could | a field |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The gate would rust shut

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding:t9:o1:1
# text = The gate would rust shut
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	rust	rust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rust** | would | the gate |  |  |  |  | shut *property* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The field would grow faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding:t9:o2:1
# text = The field would grow faster
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | the field |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing, because farm animals never wander far from where they are kept

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding:t9:o3:1
# text = Nothing, because farm animals never wander far from where they are kept
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	13	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	wander	wander	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **wander** | present | farm animals |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | present · passive |  | Nothing |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The animals could get out onto the road or into the wrong field

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding:t9:o4:1
# text = The animals could get out onto the road or into the wrong field
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get out** | could | the animals |  |  | the road or the wrong field |  | out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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