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title: «crap, dunno how old these eggs are» How can a bowl of water help? — Where eggs come from: hens, shell colo… · tree and pragmatics
description: «crap, dunno how old these eggs are» How can a bowl of water help? Test 5 of lesson 342 «Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what is inside» 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 
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# Test 5 · Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what…

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«crap, dunno how old these eggs are» How can a bowl of water help?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** crap · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** help

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This is test 5 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:342-where-eggs-come-from-hens-shell-colours-sizes-and-what-is-inside:t5:1
# text = «crap, dunno how old these eggs are» How can a bowl of water help?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	crap	crap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	dunno	dunno	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | can · present | crap | help |  |  |  |  | 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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Fresh eggs float on top and the very old ones sink right down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:342-where-eggs-come-from-hens-shell-colours-sizes-and-what-is-inside:t5:o1:1
# text = Fresh eggs float on top and the very old ones sink right down
1	Fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	float	float	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sink	sink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	right	right	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | present | Fresh eggs |  |  | top |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Trajectory |
| 2 | **sink** | present | the old ones |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Old eggs turn the water yellow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:342-where-eggs-come-from-hens-shell-colours-sizes-and-what-is-inside:t5:o2:1
# text = Old eggs turn the water yellow
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | Old eggs | the water |  |  |  | yellow *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent water=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Fresh eggs lie flat on the bottom, very old ones float

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:342-where-eggs-come-from-hens-shell-colours-sizes-and-what-is-inside:t5:o3:1
# text = Fresh eggs lie flat on the bottom, very old ones float
1	Fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	flat	flat	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	float	float	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | Fresh eggs |  |  | the bottom |  | flat *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bottom=Location |
| 2 | **float** | present | old ones |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Old eggs sink faster to the bottom than fresh ones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:342-where-eggs-come-from-hens-shell-colours-sizes-and-what-is-inside:t5:o4:1
# text = Old eggs sink faster to the bottom than fresh ones
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sink	sink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | present | Old eggs |  |  |  |  | to the bottom; than fresh ones; fast *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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