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# Test 4 · ★ · The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs

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«potato plant's got mini tomatoes on it, sick, let's eat them» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** potato plant, you, 's · **What happens:** get, let, eat, be · **To what, where:** mini tomatoes, it, 's, tomatoes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs:t4:1
# text = «potato plant's got mini tomatoes on it, sick, let's eat them» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	potato	potato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
6	mini	mini	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
18	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | present · passive | potato plant | mini tomatoes |  | it |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent tomato=Theme on it=Source |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | 's |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive | 's *not said here* | tomatoes *= tomato* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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They are poisonous potato berries; do not eat them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs:t4:o1:1
# text = They are poisonous potato berries; do not eat them
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	potato	potato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | They | poisonous potato berries |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **eat** | infinitive · do-support | poisonous potato berries *not said here* | berries *= berry* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They are safe once washed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs:t4:o2:1
# text = They are safe once washed
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
5	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | They |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wash** | participle | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They are sweet baby potatoes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs:t4:o3:1
# text = They are sweet baby potatoes
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | They | sweet baby potatoes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They are real tomatoes, carried over from a tomato plant by bees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs:t4:o4:1
# text = They are real tomatoes, carried over from a tomato plant by bees
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
7	over	over	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	tomato	tomato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | They | real tomatoes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry over** | participle |  | real tomatoes *not said here* |  | a tomato plant |  | by bees; over *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from plant=Initial\_Location |

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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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