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title: Dad says everyone in Britain still works on farms like in the old da… — Food and farming around the world · tree and pragmatics
description: Dad says everyone in Britain still works on farms like in the old days. Put him right. Test 8 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 right.
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# Test 8 · Food and farming around the world

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Dad says everyone in Britain still works on farms like in the old days. Put him right.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Dad, everyone, you · **What happens:** say, work, put · **To what, where:** Dad · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Dad says everyone in Britain still works on farms like in the old days.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:26-food-and-farming-around-the-world:t8:1
# text = Dad says everyone in Britain still works on farms like in the old days.
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Dad |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **work** | present | everyone |  |  |  | still | on farms like the old days | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on farm=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:* Put him right.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:26-food-and-farming-around-the-world:t8:2
# text = Put him right.
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	right	right	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | Dad |  |  | right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |

## The options {#options}

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only about 1 percent do, thanks to machines

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:26-food-and-farming-around-the-world:t8:o1:1
# text = Only about 1 percent do, thanks to machines
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	percent	percent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	do	do	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
About half of Britons work on farms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:26-food-and-farming-around-the-world:t8:o2:1
# text = About half of Britons work on farms
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Britons	briton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | half of Britons |  |  |  |  | on farms | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on farm=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He is right, most Britons are still farmers today

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:26-food-and-farming-around-the-world:t8:o3:1
# text = He is right, most Britons are still farmers today
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	Britons	Briton	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
10	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | He |  |  |  | today | right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | most Britons | farmers |  |  | still |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nobody at all works on farms in Britain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:26-food-and-farming-around-the-world:t8:o4:1
# text = Nobody at all works on farms in Britain
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	_
4	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | Nobody |  |  |  |  | on farms in Britain | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on farm=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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