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title: Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning… — Chocolate and sweets · tree and pragmatics
description: Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning fresh cocoa beans. Exam question 2 of lesson 2 «Chocolate and sweets» of the technology 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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# Exam question 2 · Chocolate and sweets

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning fresh cocoa beans.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, established facts · **What happens:** select, establish, concern · **To what, where:** response, fresh cocoa beans

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 2 «Chocolate and sweets» of the technology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/technology/2-chocolate-and-sweets/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:2-chocolate-and-sweets:e2:1
# text = Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning fresh cocoa beans.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the response |  |  |  | consistent *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme |
| 2 | **establish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **concern** | gerund | the established facts *not said here* | fresh cocoa beans |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bean=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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They possess the taste of milk chocolate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:2-chocolate-and-sweets:e2:o1:1
# text = They possess the taste of milk chocolate
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	possess	possess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **possess** | present | They | the taste of milk chocolate |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot taste=Theme |
| 2 | **taste** |  |  | milk chocolate |  |  |  |  | nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They are grown principally in northern Europe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:2-chocolate-and-sweets:e2:o2:1
# text = They are grown principally in northern Europe
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	principally	principally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present · passive |  | They |  | northern Europe |  | principally *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |

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

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They possess a bitter taste bearing no resemblance to that of chocolate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:2-chocolate-and-sweets:e2:o3:1
# text = They possess a bitter taste bearing no resemblance to that of chocolate
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	possess	possess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **possess** | present | They | a bitter taste |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot taste=Theme |
| 2 | **bear** | gerund | a bitter taste *not said here* | no resemblance of chocolate |  |  |  | to that | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resemblance=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They are ordinarily consumed fresh by the purchaser, much as one eats fruit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:2-chocolate-and-sweets:e2:o4:1
# text = They are ordinarily consumed fresh by the purchaser, much as one eats fruit
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	ordinarily	ordinarily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	consumed	consume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	purchaser	purchaser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	much	much	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nsubj	_	_
13	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consume** | present · passive | the purchaser | They |  |  |  | fresh, ordinarily *property* | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset |
| 2 | **eat** | present | one | fruit |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |

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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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