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title: lil sis ate a berry off the bush!! — Plants that sting, scratch and poison · tree and pragmatics
description: lil sis ate a berry off the bush!! Test 11 · ★ 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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# Test 11 · ★ · Plants that sting, scratch and poison

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lil sis ate a berry off the bush!!

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** lil sis · **What happens:** eat · **To what, where:** berry

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This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:t11:1
# text = lil sis ate a berry off the bush!!
1	lil	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sis	sis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!!	!!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | lil sis | a berry |  |  |  | off the bush | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Wait n see if she's ok first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:t11:o1:1
# text = Wait n see if she's ok first
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	n	n	X	FW	_	1	dep	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	ok	ok	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | she |  |  |  |  | ok *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Give her lots of sweets to take the taste away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:t11:o2:1
# text = Give her lots of sweets to take the taste away
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | lots of sweets | her *= she* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient lot=Theme |
| 2 | **take away** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the taste |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Tell a grown-up now and keep a berry to show

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:t11:o3:1
# text = Tell a grown-up now and keep a berry to show
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	grown	grown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | a grown |  |  | now |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grown=Recipient |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a berry |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Theme |
| 3 | **show** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Make her eat another one to check

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:t11:o4:1
# text = Make her eat another one to check
1	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | infinitive | her *= she* *not said here* | another one |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 3 | **check** | to-infinitive | her *= she* *not said here* | another one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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