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title: "bloody toast landed butter down AGAIN, it always does" What's true? — Let's test it! Experiments and fair te… · tree and pragmatics
description: "bloody toast landed butter down AGAIN, it always does" What's true? Test 4 · ★★ of lesson 29 «Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests» of the myths 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 4 · ★★ · Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests

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"bloody toast landed butter down AGAIN, it always does" What's true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** bloody toast, toast · **What happens:** land down, do, be · **To what, where:** butter

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This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 29 «Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests» of the myths 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/myths/29-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:29-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests:t4:1
# text = "bloody toast landed butter down AGAIN, it always does" What's true?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	toast	toast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	AGAIN	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	11	advmod	_	_
11	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
13	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land down** *in a quote* | past | bloody toast | butter |  |  | again |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: agent=Theme butter=Destination |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | present | toast |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | 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 {#o1}

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Toast is magnetic on the buttered side

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:29-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests:t4:o1:1
# text = Toast is magnetic on the buttered side
1	Toast	toast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	magnetic	magnetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	buttered	butter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Toast |  |  | the buttered side |  | magnetic *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **butter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It never really happens, you imagine it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:29-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests:t4:o2:1
# text = It never really happens, you imagine it
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	imagine	imagine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **happen** | present | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **imagine** | present | you | it |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |

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

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From table height it often does, because it turns about half a turn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:29-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests:t4:o3:1
# text = From table height it often does, because it turns about half a turn
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	14	det:predet	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | height |  |  | table height |  | often *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **turn about** | present | height | half turn |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme turn=Result |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It's pure bad luck, there's no reason at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:29-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests:t4:o4:1
# text = It's pure bad luck, there's no reason at all
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | pure bad luck |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | present | no reason at all |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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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