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# Test 1 · ★ · The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs

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«just chuck slug pellets everywhere, kill the lot of 'em» What is the problem?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** chuck, kill, be · **To what, where:** slug pellets, lot, problem · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 338 «The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs» 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/338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs:t1:1
# text = «just chuck slug pellets everywhere, kill the lot of 'em» What is the problem?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	chuck	chuck	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	slug	slug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	pellets	pellet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	kill	kill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	'em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
14	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	obj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chuck** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | slug pellets |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **kill** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | the lot of 'em |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | the problem |  |  |  |  | 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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Pellets make lettuce grow too fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs:t1:o1:1
# text = Pellets make lettuce grow too fast
1	Pellets	pellet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	lettuce	lettuce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Pellets | lettuce |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | infinitive | lettuce *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Pellets can harm hedgehogs and birds that eat slugs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs:t1:o2:1
# text = Pellets can harm hedgehogs and birds that eat slugs
1	Pellets	pellet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	slugs	slug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **harm** | can | Pellets | hedgehogs and birds |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hedgehog=Experiencer |
| 2 | **eat** | present | hedgehogs and birds | slugs |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slug=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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There is no problem at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs:t1:o3:1
# text = There is no problem at all
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | no problem at all |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Slugs love pellets and get bigger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs:t1:o4:1
# text = Slugs love pellets and get bigger
1	Slugs	slug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	pellets	pellet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
6	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | present | Slugs | pellets |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pellet=Stimulus |
| 2 | **get** | infinitive | Slugs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | big *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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