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title: Mate reckons you're eating dead wasps in every fig. True? — Flowers and pollination · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate reckons you're eating dead wasps in every fig. True? Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 58 «Flowers and pollination» 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 · ★★ · Flowers and pollination

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Mate reckons you're eating dead wasps in every fig. True?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mate, you · **What happens:** reckon, eat · **To what, where:** dead wasps, fig

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 58 «Flowers and pollination» 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/58-flowers-and-pollination/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mate reckons you're eating dead wasps in every fig.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:58-flowers-and-pollination:t10:1
# text = Mate reckons you're eating dead wasps in every fig.
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wasps	wasp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	fig	fig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | present | Mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | present · progressive | you | dead wasps |  | every fig |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wasp=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.

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*Sentence 2:* True?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:58-flowers-and-pollination:t10:2
# text = True?
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Yes, each fig holds hundreds of live wasps

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:58-flowers-and-pollination:t10:o1:1
# text = Yes, each fig holds hundreds of live wasps
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	fig	fig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	wasps	wasp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present | each fig | hundreds of live wasps |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Not really: many shop figs need no wasps, and wild figs digest them

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:58-flowers-and-pollination:t10:o2:1
# text = Not really: many shop figs need no wasps, and wild figs digest them
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	figs	fig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	wasps	wasp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	figs	fig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	digest	digest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **need** | present | many shop figs | no wasps |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wasp=Theme |
| 2 | **digest** | present | wild figs | wasps *= wasp* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, that is why figs are crunchy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:58-flowers-and-pollination:t10:o3:1
# text = Yes, that is why figs are crunchy
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
6	figs	fig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	crunchy	crunchy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | figs |  |  |  |  | crunchy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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No, wasps never go near figs, they hate the smell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:58-flowers-and-pollination:t10:o4:1
# text = No, wasps never go near figs, they hate the smell
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	wasps	wasp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	near	near	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	figs	fig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	hate	hate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | present | wasps |  |  | figs |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near fig=Location |
| 2 | **hate** | present | wasps *= wasp* | the smell |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smell=Stimulus |

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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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