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title: «chickens r just vegetarian, they eat seeds» What is right? — Chickens: eggs, pecking order and livi… · tree and pragmatics
description: «chickens r just vegetarian, they eat seeds» What is right? Test 9 · ★ 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 was right.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs

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«chickens r just vegetarian, they eat seeds» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** chickens · **What happens:** be, eat · **To what, where:** seeds · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs:t9:1
# text = «chickens r just vegetarian, they eat seeds» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	r	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	vegetarian	vegetarian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | chickens |  |  |  |  | vegetarian *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** *in a quote* | present | chickens *= chicken* | seeds |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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 eat only grass like cows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs:t9:o1:1
# text = They eat only grass like cows
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | They | grass |  |  |  | like cows | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient |

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

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They are omnivores and eat insects, worms and even mice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs:t9:o2:1
# text = They are omnivores and eat insects, worms and even mice
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	omnivores	omnivore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | They | omnivores and worms and mice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | present | omnivores and worms and mice *not said here* | insects |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, chickens eat only seeds and the odd bit of bread from the kitchen

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs:t9:o3:1
# text = Yes, chickens eat only seeds and the odd bit of bread from the kitchen
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | chickens | seeds |  | the kitchen |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They eat only meat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs:t9:o4:1
# text = They eat only meat
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | They | meat |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=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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