--- title: Dry beans have been kept in a jar for a year without growing. Why? — Life cycles · tree and pragmatics description: Dry beans have been kept in a jar for a year without growing. Why? Test 8 of lesson 25 «Life cycles» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/25-life-cycles/t8/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [Life cycles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/25-life-cycles/) / t8 # Test 8 · Life cycles Dry beans have been kept in a jar for a year without growing. Why? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** keep, grow · **To what, where:** Dry beans, jar This is test 8 of lesson 25 «Life cycles» of the world 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/world/25-life-cycles/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Dry beans have been kept in a jar for a year without growing. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:25-life-cycles:t8:1 # text = Dry beans have been kept in a jar for a year without growing. 1 Dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 beans bean NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 jar jar NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 12 without without SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 growing grow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present · perfect · passive | | Dry beans | | a jar | year | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in jar=Location | | 2 | **grow** | gerund | | | | | | | 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:* Why? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:25-life-cycles:t8:2 # text = Why? 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} They had no garden soil ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:25-life-cycles:t8:o1:1 # text = They had no garden soil 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 4 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | They | no garden soil | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Patient | ### Option 2 {#o2} They had no sunlight ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:25-life-cycles:t8:o2:1 # text = They had no sunlight 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | They | no sunlight | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunlight=Patient | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} They had no water ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:25-life-cycles:t8:o3:1 # text = They had no water 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | They | no water | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ### Option 4 {#o4} They had no fertiliser ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:25-life-cycles:t8:o4:1 # text = They had no fertiliser 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 fertiliser fertiliser NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | They | no fertiliser | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fertiliser=Patient | **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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