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title: «eat your fish slowly» says Gran. Why does she have a point? — Where meat and fish come from, told ho… · tree and pragmatics
description: «eat your fish slowly» says Gran. Why does she have a point? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 343 «Where meat and fish come from, told honestly» 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 right.
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# Test 10 · ★ · Where meat and fish come from, told honestly

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«eat your fish slowly» says Gran. Why does she have a point?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Gran · **What happens:** eat, say, have · **To what, where:** fish, point · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 343 «Where meat and fish come from, told honestly» 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/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «eat your fish slowly» says Gran.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly:t10:1
# text = «eat your fish slowly» says Gran.
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Gran	Gran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | your fish |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Gran |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Why does she have a point?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly:t10:2
# text = Why does she have a point?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present · do-support | Gran | a point |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Fish have many small bones that are easy to swallow by mistake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly:t10:o1:1
# text = Fish have many small bones that are easy to swallow by mistake
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Fish | many small bones |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | many small bones |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **swallow** | to-infinitive | many small bones *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by mistake | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Fish is only good for you if eaten slowly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly:t10:o2:1
# text = Fish is only good for you if eaten slowly
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
9	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Fish |  |  |  |  | for you; good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | Fish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Fast eating turns fish into meat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly:t10:o3:1
# text = Fast eating turns fish into meat
1	Fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	eating	eating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | Fast eating | fish |  | meat |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent fish=Theme into meat=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Fish go cold faster than meat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly:t10:o4:1
# text = Fish go cold faster than meat
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Fish |  |  |  |  | than meat; cold, fast *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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