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title: why do farmers grow different stuff in the same field each year — Farms and where our food comes from · tree and pragmatics
description: why do farmers grow different stuff in the same field each year Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 80 «Farms and where our food comes from» 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 right.
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# Test 11 · ★★ · Farms and where our food comes from

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why do farmers grow different stuff in the same field each year

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** farmers · **What happens:** grow · **To what, where:** different stuff, same field

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 80 «Farms and where our food comes from» 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/80-farms-and-our-food/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:80-farms-and-our-food:t11:1
# text = why do farmers grow different stuff in the same field each year
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present · do-support | farmers | different stuff |  | the same field | year |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stuff=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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It stops the rain from washing seeds away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:80-farms-and-our-food:t11:o1:1
# text = It stops the rain from washing seeds away
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present | It | the rain |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality rain=Eventuality |
| 2 | **wash away** | gerund |  | seeds |  |  |  | away *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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It keeps the soil healthy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:80-farms-and-our-food:t11:o2:1
# text = It keeps the soil healthy
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | It | the soil |  |  |  | healthy *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It makes the field easier to plough

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:80-farms-and-our-food:t11:o3:1
# text = It makes the field easier to plough
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	plough	plough	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | It | the field |  |  |  | easy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material field=Product |
| 2 | **plough** | to-infinitive | the field *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It confuses the birds that eat crops

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:80-farms-and-our-food:t11:o4:1
# text = It confuses the birds that eat crops
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	confuses	confuse	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confuse** | present | It | the birds |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | present | the birds | crops |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Patient |

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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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