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# Test 2 · Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what…

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«brown eggs are healthier innit, that's why mum buys em» What is the best answer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** brown eggs, healthier innit, mum, best answer · **What happens:** be, buy · **To what, where:** healthier innit, em · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 of lesson 342 «Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what is inside» 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/342-where-eggs-come-from-hens-shell-colours-sizes-and-what-is-inside/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:342-where-eggs-come-from-hens-shell-colours-sizes-and-what-is-inside:t2:1
# text = «brown eggs are healthier innit, that's why mum buys em» What is the best answer?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	healthier	healthy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	buys	buy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
13	em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	parataxis	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | brown eggs | healthier innit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | healthier innit | healthier innit *not said here* |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **buy** *in a quote* | present | mum | em *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the best answer |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Yes, brown eggs have more vitamins and goodness packed inside them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:342-where-eggs-come-from-hens-shell-colours-sizes-and-what-is-inside:t2:o1:1
# text = Yes, brown eggs have more vitamins and goodness packed inside them
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	goodness	goodness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	packed	pack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
11	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | brown eggs | more vitamins and goodness |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vitamin=Patient |
| 2 | **pack** | participle |  | more vitamins and goodness *not said here* |  |  |  | inside eggs *= egg* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme inside they=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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No, white eggs are healthier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:342-where-eggs-come-from-hens-shell-colours-sizes-and-what-is-inside:t2:o2:1
# text = No, white eggs are healthier
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	healthier	healthy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | white eggs |  |  |  |  | healthy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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No, the colour only shows the breed; inside they are the same food

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:342-where-eggs-come-from-hens-shell-colours-sizes-and-what-is-inside:t2:o3:1
# text = No, the colour only shows the breed; inside they are the same food
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	breed	breed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
10	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | the colour | the breed |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent breed=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present | they |  |  | the same food |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes, white eggs are bleached at the farm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:342-where-eggs-come-from-hens-shell-colours-sizes-and-what-is-inside:t2:o4:1
# text = Yes, white eggs are bleached at the farm
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	bleached	bleach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bleach** | present · passive |  | white eggs |  | the farm |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

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