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title: Why do many countries grow lots of rice, wheat or maize? — Farms and where our food comes from · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do many countries grow lots of rice, wheat or maize? Test 9 · ★★ 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 9 · ★★ · Farms and where our food comes from

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Why do many countries grow lots of rice, wheat or maize?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** many countries · **What happens:** do, grow · **To what, where:** lots

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This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:80-farms-and-our-food:t9:1
# text = Why do many countries grow lots of rice, wheat or maize?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	maize	maize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | many countries *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grow** | present | many countries | lots of rice |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lot=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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They need no water at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:80-farms-and-our-food:t9:o1:1
# text = They need no water at all
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | They | no water |  | all |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They grow without any soil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:80-farms-and-our-food:t9:o2:1
# text = They grow without any soil
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	without	without	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | They |  |  |  |  | without any soil | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
These crops feed the most people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:80-farms-and-our-food:t9:o3:1
# text = These crops feed the most people
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | present | this crops |  | the most people |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They grow only in very cold places

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:80-farms-and-our-food:t9:o4:1
# text = They grow only in very cold places
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	places	place	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 | They |  |  | cold places |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |

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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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