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title: Would a goose that flies thousands of kilometres have dark or pale b… — Where meat and fish come from, told ho… · tree and pragmatics
description: Would a goose that flies thousands of kilometres have dark or pale breast meat? Test 4 · ★ 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 4 · ★ · Where meat and fish come from, told honestly

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Would a goose that flies thousands of kilometres have dark or pale breast meat?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** goose · **What happens:** fly, have · **To what, where:** thousands, dark breast meat

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly:t4:1
# text = Would a goose that flies thousands of kilometres have dark or pale breast meat?
1	Would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | present | a goose | thousands of kilometres |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thousand=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | would | a goose | dark breast meat |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient |

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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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Clear like jelly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly:t4:o1:1
# text = Clear like jelly
1	Clear	clear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	jelly	jelly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clear** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like jelly | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Bright green

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly:t4:o2:1
# text = Bright green
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

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Dark, because its flying muscles work for a long time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly:t4:o3:1
# text = Dark, because its flying muscles work for a long time
1	Dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **work** | present | its flying muscles |  |  |  | time |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Pale, like a chicken's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly:t4:o4:1
# text = Pale, like a chicken's
1	Pale	pale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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