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title: Why is Ukraine called the breadbasket of Europe? — Deserts, rainforests and grasslands · tree and pragmatics
description: Why is Ukraine called the breadbasket of Europe? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 66 «Deserts, rainforests and grasslands» 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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# Test 6 · ★ · Deserts, rainforests and grasslands

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Why is Ukraine called the breadbasket of Europe?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** breadbasket · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 66 «Deserts, rainforests and grasslands» 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/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:t6:1
# text = Why is Ukraine called the breadbasket of Europe?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	breadbasket	breadbasket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present · passive |  | the breadbasket of Europe |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |

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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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It is covered by thick tropical rainforest full of monkeys

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:t6:o1:1
# text = It is covered by thick tropical rainforest full of monkeys
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	tropical	tropical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	rainforest	rainforest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | present · passive | thick tropical rainforest | It |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It has no winter at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:t6:o2:1
# text = It has no winter at all
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | It |  |  |  | winter |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It is a desert with many oases

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:t6:o3:1
# text = It is a desert with many oases
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	oases	oasis	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a desert |  |  |  | with many oases | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Its steppe soil is rich black chernozem, good for wheat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:t6:o4:1
# text = Its steppe soil is rich black chernozem, good for wheat
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	steppe	steppe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	chernozem	chernozem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Its steppe soil | rich black chernozem |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **soil** |  | Its *= it* |  |  |  |  |  | nom soil «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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