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title: If farmers had no pots, what problem would they have? — The first farms and towns · tree and pragmatics
description: If farmers had no pots, what problem would they have? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 2 «The first farms and towns» of the history 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 3 · ★ · The first farms and towns

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If farmers had no pots, what problem would they have?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** farmers, problem · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** pots

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 2 «The first farms and towns» of the history 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/history/2-the-first-farms-and-towns/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:2-the-first-farms-and-towns:t3:1
# text = If farmers had no pots, what problem would they have?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
8	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | farmers | no pots |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | would | problem | no pots |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Storing grain and water would be hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:2-the-first-farms-and-towns:t3:o1:1
# text = Storing grain and water would be hard
1	Storing	store	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **store** | gerund |  | grain and water |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | would | Storing |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They could not plant seeds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:2-the-first-farms-and-towns:t3:o2:1
# text = They could not plant seeds
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	plant	plant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **plant** | could | They | seeds |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They could not walk to the fields

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:2-the-first-farms-and-towns:t3:o3:1
# text = They could not walk to the fields
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **walk** | could | They |  |  |  |  | to the fields *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to field=Result |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Their dogs would run away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:2-the-first-farms-and-towns:t3:o4:1
# text = Their dogs would run away
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run away** | would | Their dogs |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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