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title: Why is fruit a better snack than sweets between meals? — Sharing, sleep and safe food · tree and pragmatics
description: Why is fruit a better snack than sweets between meals? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 209 «Sharing, sleep and safe food» of the everyday 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 8 · ★ · Sharing, sleep and safe food

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Why is fruit a better snack than sweets between meals?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** fruit · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** better snack

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 209 «Sharing, sleep and safe food» of the everyday 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/everyday/209-sharing-sleep-and-safe-food/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:209-sharing-sleep-and-safe-food:t8:1
# text = Why is fruit a better snack than sweets between meals?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	snack	snack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	between	between	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | fruit | a better snack |  |  |  | than sweets between meals | 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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Sweets have no energy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:209-sharing-sleep-and-safe-food:t8:o1:1
# text = Sweets have no energy
1	Sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Sweets | no energy |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Fruit makes you never hungry again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:209-sharing-sleep-and-safe-food:t8:o2:1
# text = Fruit makes you never hungry again
1	Fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Fruit | you |  |  | again | hungry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It has no sugar at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:209-sharing-sleep-and-safe-food:t8:o3:1
# text = It has no sugar at all
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | It | no sugar |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient |

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

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It keeps your energy steady

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:209-sharing-sleep-and-safe-food:t8:o4:1
# text = It keeps your energy steady
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | It | your energy |  |  |  | steady *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=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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