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title: Text: «Hedgehogs eat beetles, worms and slugs.» Q: «Name two things… — Retrieval: finding the answer in the t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Text: «Hedgehogs eat beetles, worms and slugs.» Q: «Name two things hedgehogs eat.» Which answer gets the mark? Test 10 of lesson 17 «Retrieval: finding the answer in the text» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 10 · Retrieval: finding the answer in the text

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Text: «Hedgehogs eat beetles, worms and slugs.» Q: «Name two things hedgehogs eat.» Which answer gets the mark?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Hedgehogs, answer · **What happens:** eat, name, get · **To what, where:** beetles, two things, mark

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This is test 10 of lesson 17 «Retrieval: finding the answer in the text» of the English 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/english/17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Text: «Hedgehogs eat beetles, worms and slugs.»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text:t10:1
# text = Text: «Hedgehogs eat beetles, worms and slugs.»
1	Text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	beetles	beetle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	slugs	slug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** *in a quote* | present | Hedgehogs | beetles and worms and slugs |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beetle=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:* Q: «Name two things hedgehogs eat.»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text:t10:2
# text = Q: «Name two things hedgehogs eat.»
1	Q	Q	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Name	name	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	appos	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | two things |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** *in a quote* | present | hedgehogs | two things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |

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*Sentence 3:* Which answer gets the mark?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text:t10:3
# text = Which answer gets the mark?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | which answer | the mark |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Slugs and stuff like that

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text:t10:o1:1
# text = Slugs and stuff like that
1	Slugs	slug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Worms and slugs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text:t10:o2:1
# text = Worms and slugs
1	Worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	slugs	slug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Things in the garden

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text:t10:o3:1
# text = Things in the garden
1	Things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Bugs and food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text:t10:o4:1
# text = Bugs and food
1	Bugs	bug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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