---
title: How can a farmer in a cold country grow tomatoes in early spring? — Farms and where our food comes from · tree and pragmatics
description: How can a farmer in a cold country grow tomatoes in early spring? Test 6 · ★★ 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/80-farms-and-our-food/t6/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Farms and where our food comes from](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/80-farms-and-our-food/) / t6

# Test 6 · ★★ · Farms and where our food comes from

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
How can a farmer in a cold country grow tomatoes in early spring?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** farmer · **What happens:** grow · **To what, where:** tomatoes

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 6 · ★★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:80-farms-and-our-food:t6:1
# text = How can a farmer in a cold country grow tomatoes in early spring?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | can | a farmer in a cold country | tomatoes |  |  | spring |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tomato=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In a flooded rice field

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:80-farms-and-our-food:t6:o1:1
# text = In a flooded rice field
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	flooded	flood	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
4	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flood** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In a heated greenhouse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:80-farms-and-our-food:t6:o2:1
# text = In a heated greenhouse
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	heated	heat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	greenhouse	greenhouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In a snowy field

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:80-farms-and-our-food:t6:o3:1
# text = In a snowy field
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In a deep, dark cellar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:80-farms-and-our-food:t6:o4:1
# text = In a deep, dark cellar
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Farms and where our food comes from, test 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/80-farms-and-our-food/t5/)
- next →: [Farms and where our food comes from, test 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/80-farms-and-our-food/t7/)
- ↑ back to [Farms and where our food comes from](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/80-farms-and-our-food/)