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title: My grandad picked some plain white mushrooms in the field, they look… — Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast · tree and pragmatics
description: My grandad picked some plain white mushrooms in the field, they look fine innit. Safe? Test 3 of lesson 62 «Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast» 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 3 · Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast

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My grandad picked some plain white mushrooms in the field, they look fine innit. Safe?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** grandad, mushrooms · **What happens:** pick, look · **To what, where:** plain white mushrooms, field, fine innit

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This is test 3 of lesson 62 «Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast» 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/62-fungi-mushrooms-mould-and-yeast/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* My grandad picked some plain white mushrooms in the field, they look fine innit.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:62-fungi-mushrooms-mould-and-yeast:t3:1
# text = My grandad picked some plain white mushrooms in the field, they look fine innit.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	grandad	grandad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
5	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
14	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick** | past | My grandad | some plain white mushrooms |  | the field |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mushroom=Patient |
| 2 | **look** | present | mushrooms *= mushroom* | fine innit |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme innit=Attribute |

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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:* Safe?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:62-fungi-mushrooms-mould-and-yeast:t3:2
# text = Safe?
1	Safe	safe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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, white ones are always safe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:62-fungi-mushrooms-mould-and-yeast:t3:o1:1
# text = Yes, white ones are always safe
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	safe	safe	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 | white ones |  |  |  |  | always, safe *property* | tree rules |

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

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Not unless an expert checks them, as deadly ones can look plain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:62-fungi-mushrooms-mould-and-yeast:t3:o2:1
# text = Not unless an expert checks them, as deadly ones can look plain
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
2	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	expert	expert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	checks	check	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
13	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **check** | present | a expert | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | can | deadly ones |  |  |  |  | plain *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, if they smell nice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:62-fungi-mushrooms-mould-and-yeast:t3:o3:1
# text = Yes, if they smell nice
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	smell	smell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smell** | present | they |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes, the poisonous ones are always brightly coloured to warn you off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:62-fungi-mushrooms-mould-and-yeast:t3:o4:1
# text = Yes, the poisonous ones are always brightly coloured to warn you off
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
8	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	coloured	colour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	warn	warn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **colour** | present · passive |  | the poisonous ones |  |  |  | always, brightly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **warn off** *speech: warn* | to-infinitive |  |  | you |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |

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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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