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title: State the substances required by plants for the manufacture of food. — How plants make their food · tree and pragmatics
description: State the substances required by plants for the manufacture of food. Exam question 1 of lesson 22 «How plants make their food» of the world 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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# Exam question 1 · How plants make their food

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State the substances required by plants for the manufacture of food.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** require, manufacture · **To what, where:** State substances, food

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 22 «How plants make their food» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/world/22-photosynthesis/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:22-photosynthesis:e1:1
# text = State the substances required by plants for the manufacture of food.
1	State	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	substances	substance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:agent	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	manufacture	manufacture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **require** | participle |  | the State substances *not said here* |  |  |  | for the manufacture of food | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **manufacture** |  |  | food |  |  |  |  | nom manufacture «act transitive»: of=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 {#o1}

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Water, soil and sugar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:22-photosynthesis:e1:o1:1
# text = Water, soil and sugar
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Light, oxygen and nitrogen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:22-photosynthesis:e1:o2:1
# text = Light, oxygen and nitrogen
1	Light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	nitrogen	nitrogen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Light, water and carbon dioxide

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:22-photosynthesis:e1:o3:1
# text = Light, water and carbon dioxide
1	Light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Soil, oxygen and darkness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:22-photosynthesis:e1:o4:1
# text = Soil, oxygen and darkness
1	Soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

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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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