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title: Your green tomatoes won't ripen. "stick 'em in a bag with a banana",… — Leaves, fruit and colour in nature · tree and pragmatics
description: Your green tomatoes won't ripen. "stick 'em in a bag with a banana", says Nan. Why? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 28 «Leaves, fruit and colour in nature» of the chemistry 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 6 · ★ · Leaves, fruit and colour in nature

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Your green tomatoes won't ripen. "stick 'em in a bag with a banana", says Nan. Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** green tomatoes, Nan · **What happens:** not ripen, stick, say · **To what, where:** 'em, bag · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 28 «Leaves, fruit and colour in nature» of the chemistry 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/chemistry/28-colour-in-nature/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your green tomatoes won't ripen. "stick 'em in a bag with a banana", says Nan.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:28-colour-in-nature:t6:1
# text = Your green tomatoes won't ripen. "stick 'em in a bag with a banana", says Nan.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	ripen	ripen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	stick	stick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
10	'em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	banana	banana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
20	Nan	Nan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **ripen** | future | Your green tomatoes |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **stick** *in a quote* | infinitive | Your green tomatoes *not said here* | 'em *= they* |  | a bag |  | with a banana | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with banana=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Nan |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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:* Why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:28-colour-in-nature:t6:2
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The banana keeps them in the dark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:28-colour-in-nature:t6:o1:1
# text = The banana keeps them in the dark
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	banana	banana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | the banana | them *= they* |  | the dark |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in dark=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The banana's yellow rubs onto them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:28-colour-in-nature:t6:o2:1
# text = The banana's yellow rubs onto them
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	banana	banana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	rubs	rub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rub** |  |  | the banana |  |  |  | onto rubs *= rub* | nom rub «cognition transitive»: poss=patient onto=obl |

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

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The banana's ethylene gas speeds ripening

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:28-colour-in-nature:t6:o3:1
# text = The banana's ethylene gas speeds ripening
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	banana	banana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	ethylene	ethylene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	speeds	speed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	ripening	ripen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speed** | present | the banana's ethylene gas |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ripen** | gerund | the banana's ethylene gas *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The banana's sugar slowly soaks into the tomatoes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:28-colour-in-nature:t6:o4:1
# text = The banana's sugar slowly soaks into the tomatoes
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	banana	banana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	soaks	soak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **soak** | present | the banana's sugar |  |  | the tomatoes |  | slowly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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