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title: «mouth on fire!! gimme water quick» What would work better? — Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, f… · tree and pragmatics
description: «mouth on fire!! gimme water quick» What would work better? Test 6 · ★★ of lesson 288 «Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds» 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 wrong.
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# Test 6 · ★★ · Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and s…

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«mouth on fire!! gimme water quick» What would work better?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** work

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 288 «Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds» 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/288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds:t6:1
# text = «mouth on fire!! gimme water quick» What would work better?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!!	!!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
6	gimme	gimme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
8	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
13	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | would |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent what=Material |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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More cold water, fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds:t6:o1:1
# text = More cold water, fast
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
```

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

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

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A glass of milk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds:t6:o2:1
# text = A glass of milk
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Holding your breath

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds:t6:o3:1
# text = Holding your breath
1	Holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | gerund |  | your breath |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A spoonful of chilli

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds:t6:o4:1
# text = A spoonful of chilli
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spoonful	spoonful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	chilli	chilli	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	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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