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title: ugh why does a flower wanna smell like dead meat?? that's gross — Carnivorous and strange plants · tree and pragmatics
description: ugh why does a flower wanna smell like dead meat?? that's gross Test 10 · ★ of lesson 61 «Carnivorous and strange plants» 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 · ★ · Carnivorous and strange plants

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ugh why does a flower wanna smell like dead meat?? that's gross

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** that · **What happens:** do, be · **To what, where:** wanna smell

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 61 «Carnivorous and strange plants» 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/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants:t10:1
# text = ugh why does a flower wanna smell like dead meat?? that's gross
1	ugh	ugh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	wanna	wanna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	??	??	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	gross	gross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | a wanna smell |  |  |  | like dead meat | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | gross *property* | 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}

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Because it eats dead animals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants:t10:o1:1
# text = Because it eats dead animals
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | it | dead animals |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Because it is already dead inside and rotting from the roots up, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants:t10:o2:1
# text = Because it is already dead inside and rotting from the roots up, mate
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	already	already	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	_
6	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	rotting	rot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
14	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | dead, inside *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rot up** | gerund |  |  |  | the roots |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To make people throw it away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants:t10:o3:1
# text = To make people throw it away
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **throw away** | infinitive | people *not said here* | it |  |  |  | away *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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To call flies and beetles that visit dead animals to carry its pollen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants:t10:o4:1
# text = To call flies and beetles that visit dead animals to carry its pollen
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	beetles	beetle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	visit	visit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	pollen	pollen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | to-infinitive |  |  | flies and beetles |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fly=Recipient |
| 2 | **visit** | present | flies and beetles | dead animals |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **carry** | to-infinitive | flies and beetles *not said here* | its pollen |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pollen=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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