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title: Grandad: "eat ur carrots, pilots saw in the dark in the war". What r… — What vitamins do · tree and pragmatics
description: Grandad: "eat ur carrots, pilots saw in the dark in the war". What really helped them? Test 1 of lesson 21 «What vitamins do» of the medicine 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 1 · What vitamins do

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Grandad: "eat ur carrots, pilots saw in the dark in the war". What really helped them?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Grandad, pilots · **What happens:** eat, see, help · **To what, where:** carrots, dark

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This is test 1 of lesson 21 «What vitamins do» of the medicine 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/medicine/21-what-vitamins-do/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Grandad: "eat ur carrots, pilots saw in the dark in the war".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:21-what-vitamins-do:t1:1
# text = Grandad: "eat ur carrots, pilots saw in the dark in the war".
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	ur	your	PRON	PRP$	Abbr=Yes|Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	carrots	carrot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	pilots	pilot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive | Grandad | ur's carrots |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carrot=Patient |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | past | pilots |  |  | the dark |  | in the war | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 really helped them?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:21-what-vitamins-do:t1:2
# text = What really helped them?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | past |  | carrots *= carrot* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Special night-vision carrots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:21-what-vitamins-do:t1:o1:1
# text = Special night-vision carrots
1	Special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	carrots	carrot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Radar, the carrot story was a cover

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:21-what-vitamins-do:t1:o2:1
# text = Radar, the carrot story was a cover
1	Radar	radar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	carrot	carrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Radar and the carrot story | a cover |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Eating 20 carrots a day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:21-what-vitamins-do:t1:o3:1
# text = Eating 20 carrots a day
1	Eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	carrots	carrot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | gerund |  | 20 carrots |  |  | day |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carrot=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Carrot juice painted on their goggles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:21-what-vitamins-do:t1:o4:1
# text = Carrot juice painted on their goggles
1	Carrot	carrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	goggles	goggle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | participle |  | Carrot juice *not said here* |  | their goggles |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on goggle=Destination |

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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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