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title: A farmer grows wheat in the same field year after year and the harve… — Farms and where our food comes from · tree and pragmatics
description: A farmer grows wheat in the same field year after year and the harvest gets smaller. What could help? Test 5 · ★★ 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
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# Test 5 · ★★ · Farms and where our food comes from

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A farmer grows wheat in the same field year after year and the harvest gets smaller. What could help?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** farmer, harvest · **What happens:** grow, get, help · **To what, where:** wheat

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This is test 5 · ★★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A farmer grows wheat in the same field year after year and the harvest gets smaller.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:80-farms-and-our-food:t5:1
# text = A farmer grows wheat in the same field year after year and the harvest gets smaller.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | a farmer | wheat |  |  | year |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wheat=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | present | the harvest |  |  |  |  | small *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What could help?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:80-farms-and-our-food:t5:2
# text = What could help?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | could |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Ploughing the field twice a day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:80-farms-and-our-food:t5:o1:1
# text = Ploughing the field twice a day
1	Ploughing	plough	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plough** | gerund |  | the field |  |  | day | twice *property* | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent field=Initial\_Location |

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

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Growing a different crop in turn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:80-farms-and-our-food:t5:o2:1
# text = Growing a different crop in turn
1	Growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	crop	crop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | gerund |  | a different crop |  | turn |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crop=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Watering only at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:80-farms-and-our-food:t5:o3:1
# text = Watering only at night
1	Watering	water	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **water** | gerund |  |  |  |  | night |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Planting the wheat closer together

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:80-farms-and-our-food:t5:o4:1
# text = Planting the wheat closer together
1	Planting	plant	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	closer	close	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plant** | gerund |  | the wheat |  |  |  | close, together *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheat=Patient |

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