--- title: A farmer's field grows weaker every year. What does she most likely… — Soil · tree and pragmatics description: A farmer's field grows weaker every year. What does she most likely add? Test 9 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/56-soil/t9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/) / [Soil](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/56-soil/) / t9 # Test 9 · Soil A farmer's field grows weaker every year. What does she most likely add? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** field · **What happens:** grow, add This is test 9 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A farmer's field grows weaker every year. ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t9:1 # text = A farmer's field grows weaker every year. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 farmer farmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 weaker weak ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 xcomp _ _ 7 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 9 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | a farmer's field | | | | year | weak *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* What does she most likely add? ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t9:2 # text = What does she most likely add? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 obl _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 5 advmod _ _ 5 likely likely ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 add add VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | field | | | | | likely *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Fertiliser with nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t9:o1:1 # text = Fertiliser with nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium 1 Fertiliser fertiliser NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 with with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 nitrogen nitrogen NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 phosphorus phosphorus NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 potassium potassium NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Sand from the beach only ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t9:o2:1 # text = Sand from the beach only 1 Sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Nothing, since soil never runs out ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t9:o3:1 # text = Nothing, since soil never runs out 1 Nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 since since ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 out out ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **run out** | present | Nothing | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} Pure salt from the sea ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:56-soil:t9:o4:1 # text = Pure salt from the sea 1 Pure pure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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