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title: Why do people in Norway buy bananas from other countries? — Farms and where our food comes from · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do people in Norway buy bananas from other countries? Test 2 · ★★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 2 · ★★ · Farms and where our food comes from

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Why do people in Norway buy bananas from other countries?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** people · **What happens:** buy · **To what, where:** bananas, other countries

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This is test 2 · ★★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:80-farms-and-our-food:t2:1
# text = Why do people in Norway buy bananas from other countries?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Norway	Norway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	buy	buy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | present · do-support | people in Norway | bananas |  | other countries |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent banana=Theme from country=Source |

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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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Norwegian bananas are too big

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:80-farms-and-our-food:t2:o1:1
# text = Norwegian bananas are too big
1	Norwegian	Norwegian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Norwegian bananas |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Bananas need a warm tropical climate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:80-farms-and-our-food:t2:o2:1
# text = Bananas need a warm tropical climate
1	Bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	tropical	tropical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | Bananas | a warm tropical climate |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot climate=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Bananas grow only in the sea near warm beaches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:80-farms-and-our-food:t2:o3:1
# text = Bananas grow only in the sea near warm beaches
1	Bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	near	near	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	beaches	beach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | Bananas |  |  | the sea |  | near warm beaches | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Norway has no shops for fruit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:80-farms-and-our-food:t2:o4:1
# text = Norway has no shops for fruit
1	Norway	Norway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Norway | no shops |  |  |  | for fruit | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=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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