--- title: A meadow has 1000 kilograms of grass a year. Roughly how many kilogr… — Balance in a food web · tree and pragmatics description: A meadow has 1000 kilograms of grass a year. Roughly how many kilograms of grasshoppers can it feed? Test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 30 «Balance in a food web» 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/30-balance-in-food-webs/t2/) [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/) / [Balance in a food web](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/30-balance-in-food-webs/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★★★ · Balance in a food web A meadow has 1000 kilograms of grass a year. Roughly how many kilograms of grasshoppers can it feed? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** meadow, many kilograms · **What happens:** have, feed · **To what, where:** 1000 kilograms This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 30 «Balance in a food web» 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/30-balance-in-food-webs/#t2). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A meadow has 1000 kilograms of grass a year. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:30-balance-in-food-webs:t2:1 # text = A meadow has 1000 kilograms of grass a year. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 meadow meadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 1000 1000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 kilograms kilogram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 10 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a meadow | 1000 kilograms of grass | | | year | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilogram=Patient | 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:* Roughly how many kilograms of grasshoppers can it feed? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:30-balance-in-food-webs:t2:2 # text = Roughly how many kilograms of grasshoppers can it feed? 1 Roughly roughly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 3 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 kilograms kilogram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 grasshoppers grasshopper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 feed feed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feed** | can | many kilograms of grasshoppers | | | | | | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} About 1000 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:30-balance-in-food-webs:t2:o1:1 # text = About 1000 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 1000 1000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} About 100 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:30-balance-in-food-webs:t2:o2:1 # text = About 100 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} About 2000 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:30-balance-in-food-webs:t2:o3:1 # text = About 2000 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 2000 2000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} About 500 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:30-balance-in-food-webs:t2:o4:1 # text = About 500 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 500 500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` 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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