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title: A farmer wants a cabbage with huge flower buds. What should she do? — Evolution simply: why living things ch… · tree and pragmatics
description: A farmer wants a cabbage with huge flower buds. What should she do? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 73 «Evolution simply: why living things change over many generations» 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
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# Test 8 · ★ · Evolution simply: why living things change over many gener…

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A farmer wants a cabbage with huge flower buds. What should she do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** farmer · **What happens:** want, do · **To what, where:** cabbage

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 73 «Evolution simply: why living things change over many generations» 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/73-evolution-simply/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A farmer wants a cabbage with huge flower buds.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:73-evolution-simply:t8:1
# text = A farmer wants a cabbage with huge flower buds.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	buds	bud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | a farmer | a cabbage |  |  |  | with huge flower buds | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cabbage=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What should she do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:73-evolution-simply:t8:2
# text = What should she do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | should | farmer |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Keep seeds from the plants with the biggest buds, year after year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:73-evolution-simply:t8:o1:1
# text = Keep seeds from the plants with the biggest buds, year after year
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	buds	bud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | seeds |  | the plants | year | with the biggest buds and year | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer seed=Beneficiary from plant=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Water them with milk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:73-evolution-simply:t8:o2:1
# text = Water them with milk
1	Water	water	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **water** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  | with milk | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with milk=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Plant them upside down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:73-evolution-simply:t8:o3:1
# text = Plant them upside down
1	Plant	plant	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	upside	upside	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plant down** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  | down, upside *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Shout at the plants every morning until they grow bigger buds out of fear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:73-evolution-simply:t8:o4:1
# text = Shout at the plants every morning until they grow bigger buds out of fear
1	Shout	shout	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
10	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	buds	bud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the plants | morning |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grow** | present | plants *= plant* | bigger buds |  | fear |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bud=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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