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title: Why is plain yoghurt with berries a better choice than a doughnut fo… — Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast · tree and pragmatics
description: Why is plain yoghurt with berries a better choice than a doughnut for breakfast? Test 6 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; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 6 · Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast

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Why is plain yoghurt with berries a better choice than a doughnut for breakfast?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** plain yoghurt

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This is test 6 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast:t6:1
# text = Why is plain yoghurt with berries a better choice than a doughnut for breakfast?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	yoghurt	yoghurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	doughnut	doughnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | plain yoghurt |  |  |  | with berries | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Doughnuts are made of whole grains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast:t6:o1:1
# text = Doughnuts are made of whole grains
1	Doughnuts	doughnut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	grains	grain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | Doughnuts |  |  |  | of whole grains | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It has no food value but tastes nice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast:t6:o2:1
# text = It has no food value but tastes nice
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	tastes	taste	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | It | no food value |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent value=Patient |
| 2 | **taste** | present |  |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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

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It has protein and fruit with less added sugar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast:t6:o3:1
# text = It has protein and fruit with less added sugar
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	protein	protein	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
8	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | It | protein and fruit |  |  |  | with less added sugar | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protein=Patient |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It is more sugary so it gives more energy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast:t6:o4:1
# text = It is more sugary so it gives more energy
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	sugary	sugary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | sugary *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | present | it | more energy |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=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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