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title: «ew, who eats bugs, nobody normal» What is right? — Insects as food in other countries · tree and pragmatics
description: «ew, who eats bugs, nobody normal» What is right? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 290 «Insects as food in other countries» 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 1 · ★ · Insects as food in other countries

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«ew, who eats bugs, nobody normal» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** eat, be · **To what, where:** bugs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 290 «Insects as food in other countries» 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/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries:t1:1
# text = «ew, who eats bugs, nobody normal» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	ew	ew	INTJ	UH	Number=Sing	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	bugs	bug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	nsubj	_	_
9	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	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	9	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 | **eat** *in a quote* | present |  | bugs  normal |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bug=Patient |
| 2 | **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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Only people in films and TV shows eat bugs, for a dare

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries:t1:o1:1
# text = Only people in films and TV shows eat bugs, for a dare
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	shows	show	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
8	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	bugs	bug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	dare	dare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | people in films and TV shows | bugs |  |  |  | for a dare | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bug=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nobody in the world eats them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries:t1:o2:1
# text = Nobody in the world eats them
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Nobody | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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

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About 2 billion people eat insects as a normal food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries:t1:o3:1
# text = About 2 billion people eat insects as a normal food
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | billion people | insects |  |  |  | as a normal food | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only animals eat bugs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries:t1:o4:1
# text = Only animals eat bugs
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	bugs	bug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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