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title: found red berries on the trail, they look yummy, eat? — Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thor… · tree and pragmatics
description: found red berries on the trail, they look yummy, eat? Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 301 «Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» 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 
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# Test 10 · ★★ · Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants…

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found red berries on the trail, they look yummy, eat?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** berries · **What happens:** find, look, eat · **To what, where:** red berries, trail

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 301 «Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» 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/301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings:t10:1
# text = found red berries on the trail, they look yummy, eat?
1	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	trail	trail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	yummy	yummy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past |  | red berries |  | the trail |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Topic |
| 2 | **look** | present | berries *= berry* |  |  |  |  | yummy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **eat** | infinitive | berries *= berry* *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 {#o1}

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Yes, red berries are always safe to eat, they're like strawberries

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings:t10:o1:1
# text = Yes, red berries are always safe to eat, they're like strawberries
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | red berries |  |  |  |  | always, safe *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | red berries *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | berries *= berry* |  |  |  |  | like strawberries | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, if birds eat them too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings:t10:o2:1
# text = Yes, if birds eat them too
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | birds | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, only eat berries a grown-up has identified

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings:t10:o3:1
# text = No, only eat berries a grown-up has identified
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	grown	grown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	identified	identify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | imperative | you *not said here* | berries |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient |
| 2 | **identify** | present · perfect | a grown up |  |  |  |  |  | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Eat one to test it first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings:t10:o4:1
# text = Eat one to test it first
1	Eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	test	test	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | imperative | you *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 2 | **test** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | first *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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