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title: Which plant is poisonous to eat? — Plants that sting, scratch and poison · tree and pragmatics
description: Which plant is poisonous to eat? Test 6 · ★ 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 6 · ★ · Plants that sting, scratch and poison

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Which plant is poisonous to eat?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** plant · **What happens:** be, eat

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:t6:1
# text = Which plant is poisonous to eat?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | which plant |  |  |  |  | poisonous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | which plant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:t6: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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Apple

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:t6:o2:1
# text = Apple
1	Apple	Apple	PROPN	NNP	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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Carrot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:t6:o3:1
# 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.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Strawberry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:t6:o4:1
# text = Strawberry
1	Strawberry	strawberry	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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