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title: A boy in Melbourne has a big bowl of chocolate cereal and is starvin… — Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Melbourne has a big bowl of chocolate cereal and is starving by 10 o'clock. What is the best explanation? Test 1 of lesson 38 «Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast» 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 · Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast

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A boy in Melbourne has a big bowl of chocolate cereal and is starving by 10 o'clock. What is the best explanation?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boy, best explanation · **What happens:** have, starve, be · **To what, where:** big bowl

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This is test 1 of lesson 38 «Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast» 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/38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A boy in Melbourne has a big bowl of chocolate cereal and is starving by 10 o'clock.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast:t1:1
# text = A boy in Melbourne has a big bowl of chocolate cereal and is starving by 10 o'clock.
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	Melbourne	Melbourne	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	8	det	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	cereal	cereal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	starving	starve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	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 Melbourne | a big bowl of chocolate cereal |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Patient |
| 2 | **starve** | present · progressive | a boy in Melbourne *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by 10 o'clock | tree rules |

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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 is the best explanation?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast:t1:2
# text = What is the best explanation?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	explanation	explanation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the best explanation |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Cereal makes the stomach work too fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast:t1:o1:1
# text = Cereal makes the stomach work too fast
1	Cereal	cereal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Cereal | the stomach work |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material work=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Chocolate takes much longer to digest than oats do

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast:t1:o2:1
# text = Chocolate takes much longer to digest than oats do
1	Chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	much	much	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	digest	digest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	oats	oat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | Chocolate |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **digest** | to-infinitive | Chocolate *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than oats | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | present | Chocolate *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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He ate too much protein for breakfast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast:t1:o3:1
# text = He ate too much protein for breakfast
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	protein	protein	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | He | much protein |  |  |  | for breakfast | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protein=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The sugar gave quick energy that did not last

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast:t1:o4:1
# text = The sugar gave quick energy that did not last
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the sugar | quick energy |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **last** | past · do-support | quick energy |  |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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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