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title: «gonna hatch a chick from a supermarket egg in my airing cupboard» W… — Chickens: eggs, pecking order and livi… · tree and pragmatics
description: «gonna hatch a chick from a supermarket egg in my airing cupboard» What will happen? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 212 «Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs» of the biology 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 · ★ · Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs

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«gonna hatch a chick from a supermarket egg in my airing cupboard» What will happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** hatch, happen · **To what, where:** chick, supermarket egg · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 212 «Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs» of the biology 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/biology/212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs:t5:1
# text = «gonna hatch a chick from a supermarket egg in my airing cupboard» What will happen?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	dep	_	_
3	hatch	hatch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chick	chick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	supermarket	supermarket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	airing	airing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
15	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hatch** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | a chick |  | a supermarket egg |  | in my airing cupboard | tree rules |
| 2 | **happen** | future |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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A chick will hatch in three weeks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs:t5:o1:1
# text = A chick will hatch in three weeks
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chick	chick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	hatch	hatch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hatch** | future | a chick |  |  |  | week |  | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It will hatch only if the egg is brown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs:t5:o2:1
# text = It will hatch only if the egg is brown
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hatch	hatch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hatch** | future | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the egg |  |  |  |  | brown *property* | tree rules |

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

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Nothing, shop eggs are not fertilised

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs:t5:o3:1
# text = Nothing, shop eggs are not fertilised
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	fertilised	fertilis	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fertilis** | present · passive |  | Nothing eggs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A dinosaur will hatch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs:t5:o4:1
# text = A dinosaur will hatch
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	hatch	hatch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hatch** | future | a dinosaur |  |  |  |  |  | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent |

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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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