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title: Why was relying on one crop so dangerous for Ireland? — Food and farming around the world · tree and pragmatics
description: Why was relying on one crop so dangerous for Ireland? Test 3 of lesson 26 «Food and farming around the world» of the geography 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 3 · Food and farming around the world

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Why was relying on one crop so dangerous for Ireland?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** rely

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This is test 3 of lesson 26 «Food and farming around the world» of the geography 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/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:26-food-and-farming-around-the-world:t3:1
# text = Why was relying on one crop so dangerous for Ireland?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	relying	rely	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	crop	crop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rely** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | on one crop | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on crop=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Other crops were illegal in Ireland

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:26-food-and-farming-around-the-world:t3:o1:1
# text = Other crops were illegal in Ireland
1	Other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	illegal	illegal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Other crops |  |  | Ireland |  | illegal *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Potatoes cannot grow in rain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:26-food-and-farming-around-the-world:t3:o2:1
# text = Potatoes cannot grow in rain
1	Potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **grow** | can | Potatoes |  |  | rain |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rain=Location |

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

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One disease could wipe out almost all the food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:26-food-and-farming-around-the-world:t3:o3:1
# text = One disease could wipe out almost all the food
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	wipe	wipe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wipe out** | could | One disease | all food |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent food=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Potatoes give no energy at all, so people grew weak

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:26-food-and-farming-around-the-world:t3:o4:1
# text = Potatoes give no energy at all, so people grew weak
1	Potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | Potatoes | no energy |  | all |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent energy=Theme at all=Asset |
| 2 | **grow** | past | people |  |  |  |  | weak *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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