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title: Ascertain which of the following plants is poisonous if eaten. — Plants that sting, scratch and poison · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain which of the following plants is poisonous if eaten. Exam question 4 of lesson 237 «Plants that sting, scratch and poison» 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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# Exam question 4 · Plants that sting, scratch and poison

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Ascertain which of the following plants is poisonous if eaten.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, follow, be, eat · **To what, where:** plants

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 237 «Plants that sting, scratch and poison» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/237-plants-that-sting-and-poison/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:e4:1
# text = Ascertain which of the following plants is poisonous if eaten.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
6	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	ccomp	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  | plants |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | poisonous *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Foxglove

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:e4:o1:1
# text = Foxglove
1	Foxglove	foxglove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Lettuce

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:e4:o2:1
# text = Lettuce
1	Lettuce	lettuce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Garden pea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:e4:o3:1
# text = Garden pea
1	Garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Carrot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:e4:o4:1
# text = Carrot
1	Carrot	carrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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