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title: «lobster's always been posh food» What is right? — Insects as food in other countries · tree and pragmatics
description: «lobster's always been posh food» What is right? Test 7 · ★ 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 7 · ★ · Insects as food in other countries

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«lobster's always been posh food» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** lobster, posh food · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** posh food

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries:t7:1
# text = «lobster's always been posh food» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	lobster	lobster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
6	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | participle | lobster | posh food |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | posh food |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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In America it was once cheap food for the poor and prisoners

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries:t7:o1:1
# text = In America it was once cheap food for the poor and prisoners
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
6	cheap	cheap	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | it | cheap food and prisoners |  | America |  | for the poor | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, only kings and queens ever ate it, from the very start

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries:t7:o2:1
# text = Yes, only kings and queens ever ate it, from the very start
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	queens	queen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	advmod	_	_
8	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | kings and queens | it |  |  | ever |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Lobster is a kind of insect

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries:t7:o3:1
# text = Lobster is a kind of insect
1	Lobster	lobster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	insect	insect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Lobster | a kind |  |  |  | of insect | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Lobster was never eaten before cars were invented

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries:t7:o4:1
# text = Lobster was never eaten before cars were invented
1	Lobster	lobster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	invented	invent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **eat** | past · passive |  | Lobster |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **invent** | past · passive |  | cars |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |

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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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