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title: blackbird ate the rowan berries then pooed the seeds out on our car.… — Seeds and fruit and how they travel · tree and pragmatics
description: blackbird ate the rowan berries then pooed the seeds out on our car. gross. seeds dead? Test 9 of lesson 59 «Seeds and fruit and how they travel» 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 9 · Seeds and fruit and how they travel

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
blackbird ate the rowan berries then pooed the seeds out on our car. gross. seeds dead?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** blackbird, rowan berries · **What happens:** eat, poo out · **To what, where:** gross, seeds, car

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This is test 9 of lesson 59 «Seeds and fruit and how they travel» 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/59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel:t9:1
# text = blackbird ate the rowan berries then pooed the seeds out on our car. gross. seeds dead?
1	blackbird	blackbird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	rowan	rowan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	pooed	poo	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
15	gross	gross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
17	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | blackbird | gross |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **poo out** | past | the rowan berries | the seeds |  | our car | then |  | 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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, but only in winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel:t9:o1:1
# text = Yes, but only in winter
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, because they never went in, it spat them out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel:t9:o2:1
# text = No, because they never went in, it spat them out
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	spat	spat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go in** | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **spat out** | present | it | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, they pass through unharmed and can still grow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel:t9:o3:1
# text = No, they pass through unharmed and can still grow
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	through	through	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	unharmed	unharmed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass through** | present | they |  |  |  |  | through, unharmed *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | can | they *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, the bird's tummy digests every seed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel:t9:o4:1
# text = Yes, the bird's tummy digests every seed
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	tummy	tummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	digests	digest	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **digest** | present | the bird's tummy | every seed |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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