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title: «bro i'm gonna roast these conkers like at the Christmas market» Wha… — The garden in autumn: colours, conkers… · tree and pragmatics
description: «bro i'm gonna roast these conkers like at the Christmas market» What is right? Test 3 · ★★ of lesson 335 «The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 3 · ★★ · The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts

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«bro i'm gonna roast these conkers like at the Christmas market» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** i · **What happens:** roast, be · **To what, where:** conkers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 335 «The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts» 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/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts:t3:1
# text = «bro i'm gonna roast these conkers like at the Christmas market» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	_
3	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	dep	_	_
6	roast	roast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	conkers	conker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
15	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roast** *in a quote* | present | i | this conkers |  |  |  | like the Christmas market; bro *vocative* | tree rules |
| 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 the shell is poisonous

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts:t3:o1:1
# text = Only the shell is poisonous
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the shell |  |  |  |  | poisonous *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Conkers are sweeter than chestnuts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts:t3:o2:1
# text = Conkers are sweeter than chestnuts
1	Conkers	conker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	chestnuts	chestnut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Conkers |  |  |  |  | than chestnuts; sweet *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Roasting makes conkers safe, just like the chestnuts at the market

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts:t3:o3:1
# text = Roasting makes conkers safe, just like the chestnuts at the market
1	Roasting	roast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	conkers	conker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	chestnuts	chestnut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roast** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present |  | conkers |  | the market |  | like the chestnuts; safe *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset conker=Product |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Conkers are poisonous; only sweet chestnuts are roasted

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts:t3:o4:1
# text = Conkers are poisonous; only sweet chestnuts are roasted
1	Conkers	conker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	chestnuts	chestnut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	roasted	roast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Conkers |  |  |  |  | poisonous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **roast** | present · passive |  | sweet chestnuts |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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