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title: Why pick blackberries above dog height? — Plants that sting, scratch and poison · tree and pragmatics
description: Why pick blackberries above dog height? Test 5 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 5 · ★ · Plants that sting, scratch and poison

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Why pick blackberries above dog height?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** pick · **To what, where:** blackberries, dog height

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:t5:1
# text = Why pick blackberries above dog height?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	blackberries	blackberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	above	above	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick** | imperative | you *not said here* | blackberries |  | dog height |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blackberry=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Dogs bite people picking low berries

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:t5:o1:1
# text = Dogs bite people picking low berries
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bite	bite	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	picking	pick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** | present | Dogs | people |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
| 2 | **pick** | gerund | people *not said here* | low berries |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Low berries are a different poisonous kind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:t5:o2:1
# text = Low berries are a different poisonous kind
1	Low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Low berries | a different poisonous kind |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The low ones may have been weed on by dogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:t5:o3:1
# text = The low ones may have been weed on by dogs
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	weed	wee	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:agent	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wee on** | may · perfect · passive | dogs | the low ones |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The high ones are always the sweetest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:t5:o4:1
# text = The high ones are always the sweetest
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the high ones |  |  |  |  | always, sweet *property* | tree rules |

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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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