--- title: What would happen to most other crops in a flooded rice field? — China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus,… · tree and pragmatics description: What would happen to most other crops in a flooded rice field? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 380 «China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / [China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies What would happen to most other crops in a flooded rice field? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** happen, flood · **To what, where:** flooded rice field This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 380 «China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies» 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/380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies:t8:1 # text = What would happen to most other crops in a flooded rice field? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 6 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 crops crop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 flooded flood VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 11 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | would | | | | a flooded rice field | | to most other crops | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in field=Location | | 2 | **flood** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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} They would float away and grow again further down the river ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies:t8:o1:1 # text = They would float away and grow again further down the river 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 float float VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 away away ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 again again ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 further further ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 9 down down ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **float away** | would | They | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **grow** | present | They *not said here* | | | | | down the river; further *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} They would turn into rice ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies:t8:o2:1 # text = They would turn into rice 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | would | They | | | rice | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into rice=Trajectory | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Their roots would get no air and they would die ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies:t8:o3:1 # text = Their roots would get no air and they would die 1 Their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 6 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | would | Their roots | no air | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer air=Stimulus | | 2 | **die** | would | roots *= root* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} They would grow faster than rice ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies:t8:o4:1 # text = They would grow faster than rice 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 3 advmod _ _ 5 than than ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | would | They | | | | | than rice; fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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. 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