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title: Why was Ukraine called "the breadbasket of Europe"? — Soil · tree and pragmatics
description: Why was Ukraine called "the breadbasket of Europe"? Test 5 of lesson 56 «Soil» 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 5 · Soil

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Why was Ukraine called "the breadbasket of Europe"?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** breadbasket · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 of lesson 56 «Soil» 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/56-soil/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t5:1
# text = Why was Ukraine called "the breadbasket of Europe"?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	breadbasket	breadbasket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past · passive |  | the breadbasket of Europe |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |

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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 {#o1}

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It has no soil, so wheat grows on rock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t5:o1:1
# text = It has no soil, so wheat grows on rock
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | It | no soil |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Patient |
| 2 | **grow** | present | wheat |  |  | rock |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rock=Location |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Its black chernozem soils are among the most fertile in the world

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t5:o2:1
# text = Its black chernozem soils are among the most fertile in the world
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	chernozem	chernozem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	soils	soil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	among	among	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	fertile	fertile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Its black chernozem soils |  |  | the world |  | fertile *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **soil** |  | Its *= it* |  |  |  |  |  | nom soil «state transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It is covered in rainforest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t5:o3:1
# text = It is covered in rainforest
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	rainforest	rainforest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | present · passive |  | It |  |  |  | in rainforest | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in rainforest=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It has the most rain in the world

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t5:o4:1
# text = It has the most rain in the world
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | It | the most rain |  | the world |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=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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