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title: A girl wants to taste the raw burger meat before her dad cooks it. W… — Sleep and healthy eating · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl wants to taste the raw burger meat before her dad cooks it. Why not? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 80 «Sleep and healthy eating» 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 9 · ★ · Sleep and healthy eating

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A girl wants to taste the raw burger meat before her dad cooks it. Why not?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** girl, dad · **What happens:** want, taste, cook · **To what, where:** raw burger meat, meat

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 80 «Sleep and healthy eating» 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/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A girl wants to taste the raw burger meat before her dad cooks it.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:80-sleep-and-healthy-eating:t9:1
# text = A girl wants to taste the raw burger meat before her dad cooks it.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	raw	raw	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	burger	burger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	cooks	cook	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | a girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **taste** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a girl *not said here* | the raw burger meat |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme meat=Attribute |
| 3 | **cook** | present | girl's dad | meat |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Why not?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:80-sleep-and-healthy-eating:t9:2
# text = Why not?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Raw meat has no taste at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:80-sleep-and-healthy-eating:t9:o1:1
# text = Raw meat has no taste at all
1	Raw	raw	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Raw meat | no taste |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Cooking only makes it look nicer on the plate, nothing more

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:80-sleep-and-healthy-eating:t9:o2:1
# text = Cooking only makes it look nicer on the plate, nothing more
1	Cooking	cook	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	nicer	nice	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	conj	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cook** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present |  | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Uncooked meat can carry germs that make you ill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:80-sleep-and-healthy-eating:t9:o3:1
# text = Uncooked meat can carry germs that make you ill
1	Uncooked	uncooked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | can | Uncooked meat | germs |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present | germs | you |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Raw meat is too hard to chew

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:80-sleep-and-healthy-eating:t9:o4:1
# text = Raw meat is too hard to chew
1	Raw	raw	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	chew	chew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Raw meat |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **chew** | to-infinitive | Raw meat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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