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title: You bite a pufferfish dish and get ill. Was the fish venomous or poi… — Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish,… · tree and pragmatics
description: You bite a pufferfish dish and get ill. Was the fish venomous or poisonous? Test 10 of lesson 246 «Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the platypus» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Test 10 · Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the pl…

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You bite a pufferfish dish and get ill. Was the fish venomous or poisonous?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** You, fish · **What happens:** bite, get, be · **To what, where:** pufferfish dish

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This is test 10 of lesson 246 «Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the platypus» 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/246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* You bite a pufferfish dish and get ill.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus:t10:1
# text = You bite a pufferfish dish and get ill.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bite	bite	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	pufferfish	pufferfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** | present | You | a pufferfish dish |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:* Was the fish venomous or poisonous?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus:t10:2
# text = Was the fish venomous or poisonous?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	venomous	venomous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the fish |  |  |  |  | venomous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the fish *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Neither, fish cannot harm you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus:t10:o1:1
# text = Neither, fish cannot harm you
1	Neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **harm** | can | fish | you |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |

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

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Poisonous

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus:t10:o2:1
# text = Poisonous
1	Poisonous	Poisonous	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Both, always

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus:t10:o3:1
# text = Both, always
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Venomous

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus:t10:o4:1
# text = Venomous
1	Venomous	Venomous	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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