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title: A boy in Kent has a red, stinging rash after running through a weedy… — Plants that sting, scratch and poison · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Kent has a red, stinging rash after running through a weedy field in shorts. What probably stung him? Test 1 · ★ 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;
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# Test 1 · ★ · Plants that sting, scratch and poison

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A boy in Kent has a red, stinging rash after running through a weedy field in shorts. What probably stung him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** boy, red stinging rash · **What happens:** have, sting, run · **To what, where:** red stinging rash, weedy field, boy

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 237 «Plants that sting, scratch and poison» 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/237-plants-that-sting-and-poison/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A boy in Kent has a red, stinging rash after running through a weedy field in shorts.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:t1:1
# text = A boy in Kent has a red, stinging rash after running through a weedy field in shorts.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Kent	Kent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	stinging	sting	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	amod	_	_
10	rash	rash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
11	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	weedy	weedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	shorts	short	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a boy in Kent | a red stinging rash |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rash=Patient |
| 2 | **sting** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **run** | gerund | a red stinging rash *not said here* |  |  | a weedy field in shorts |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through field=Trajectory |

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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:* What probably stung him?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:t1:2
# text = What probably stung him?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	stung	sting	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sting** | past |  | boy |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus what=Experiencer he=Result |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Stinging nettles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:t1:o1:1
# text = Stinging nettles
1	Stinging	sting	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	amod	_	_
2	nettles	nettle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sting** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Dandelions

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:t1:o2:1
# text = Dandelions
1	Dandelions	dandelion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Long dry grass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:t1:o3:1
# text = Long dry grass
1	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	grass	grass	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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Daisies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:t1:o4:1
# text = Daisies
1	Daisies	daisy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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