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title: What would you most likely find if you cut a pear across the middle? — Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, s… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would you most likely find if you cut a pear across the middle? Test 5 · ★★ of lesson 346 «Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries and grapes grow» 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
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# Test 5 · ★★ · Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries and grap…

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What would you most likely find if you cut a pear across the middle?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** find, cut · **To what, where:** pear, middle

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This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 346 «Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries and grapes grow» 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/346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow:t5:1
# text = What would you most likely find if you cut a pear across the middle?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	cut	cut	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pear	pear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	across	across	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | would | you |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **cut** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | a pear |  | the middle |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pear=Product |

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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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A five-pointed star of seed rooms, like an apple

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow:t5:o1:1
# text = A five-pointed star of seed rooms, like an apple
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	pointed	pointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing, pears are solid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow:t5:o2:1
# text = Nothing, pears are solid
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	pears	pear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Nothing pears |  |  |  |  | solid *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Segments like an orange

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow:t5:o3:1
# text = Segments like an orange
1	Segments	segment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	orange	orange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A stone like a peach

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow:t5:o4:1
# text = A stone like a peach
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	peach	peach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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