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title: «bloody slugs ate all my lettuce last night, where are they now??» W… — Worms, snails and slugs · tree and pragmatics
description: «bloody slugs ate all my lettuce last night, where are they now??» Where should she look in the morning? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 217 «Worms, snails and slugs» 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 r
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# Test 10 · ★ · Worms, snails and slugs

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«bloody slugs ate all my lettuce last night, where are they now??» Where should she look in the morning?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** bloody slugs, slugs, she · **What happens:** eat, be, look · **To what, where:** lettuce

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 217 «Worms, snails and slugs» 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/217-worms-snails-and-slugs/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «bloody slugs ate all my lettuce last night, where are they now??»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:217-worms-snails-and-slugs:t10:1
# text = «bloody slugs ate all my lettuce last night, where are they now??»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	slugs	slug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	lettuce	lettuce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	conj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	??	??	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** *in a quote* | past | bloody slugs | my lettuce |  |  | now; night |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lettuce=Patient |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | slugs *= slug* |  |  |  |  | where *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.

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*Sentence 2:* Where should she look in the morning?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:217-worms-snails-and-slugs:t10:2
# text = Where should she look in the morning?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | should | she |  |  |  | morning |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Under pots and stones in damp, dark spots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:217-worms-snails-and-slugs:t10:o1:1
# text = Under pots and stones in damp, dark spots
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Inside the lettuce leaves in the hot sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:217-worms-snails-and-slugs:t10:o2:1
# text = Inside the lettuce leaves in the hot sun
1	Inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lettuce	lettuce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | present |  |  |  | the lettuce |  | in the hot sun *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in sun=Result |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Out on the sunny path, sunbathing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:217-worms-snails-and-slugs:t10:o3:1
# text = Out on the sunny path, sunbathing
1	Out	out	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	sunbathing	sunbathe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sunbathe** | gerund | the sunny path *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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High up in the trees with the birds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:217-worms-snails-and-slugs:t10:o4:1
# text = High up in the trees with the birds
1	High	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	up	up	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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