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title: Why does Britain import bananas? — Resources and what countries trade · tree and pragmatics
description: Why does Britain import bananas? Test 1 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Resources and what countries trade» 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 1 · ★★ · Resources and what countries trade

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Why does Britain import bananas?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Britain · **What happens:** import · **To what, where:** bananas

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This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Resources and what countries trade» 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/27-resources-and-what-countries-trade/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:27-resources-and-what-countries-trade:t1:1
# text = Why does Britain import bananas?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	import	import	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **import** | present · do-support | Britain | bananas |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banana=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Bananas need a tropical climate that Britain lacks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:27-resources-and-what-countries-trade:t1:o1:1
# text = Bananas need a tropical climate that Britain lacks
1	Bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	tropical	tropical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lacks	lack	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | Bananas | a tropical climate |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot climate=Theme |
| 2 | **lack** | present | a tropical climate |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Bananas in Britain grow only in winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:27-resources-and-what-countries-trade:t1:o2:1
# text = Bananas in Britain grow only in winter
1	Bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | Bananas in Britain |  |  |  | winter |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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British bananas are too big to eat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:27-resources-and-what-countries-trade:t1:o3:1
# text = British bananas are too big to eat
1	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | British bananas |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | British bananas *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Britain bans growing bananas by law to protect the farmers of its old colonies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:27-resources-and-what-countries-trade:t1:o4:1
# text = Britain bans growing bananas by law to protect the farmers of its old colonies
1	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bans	ban	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	colonies	colony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ban** | present | Britain | growing bananas |  |  |  | by law | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer banana=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **protect** | to-infinitive | Britain *not said here* |  | the farmers of law's old colonies |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmer=Beneficiary |

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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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