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title: Nephew: "An organic doughnut is still a doughnut, Auntie." What is h… — "It's natural so it's healthy" and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nephew: "An organic doughnut is still a doughnut, Auntie." What is he saying? Test 10 of lesson 179 «"It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle cure» of the world 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 10 · "It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle cure

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Nephew: "An organic doughnut is still a doughnut, Auntie." What is he saying?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** organic doughnut, Auntie · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** doughnut · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 of lesson 179 «"It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle cure» of the world 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/world/179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Nephew: "An organic doughnut is still a doughnut, Auntie."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure:t10:1
# text = Nephew: "An organic doughnut is still a doughnut, Auntie."
1	Nephew	nephew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	organic	organic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	doughnut	doughnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	doughnut	doughnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Auntie	Auntie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | a organic doughnut | a doughnut |  |  | still |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is he saying?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure:t10:2
# text = What is he saying?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | Auntie |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Doughnuts can never be organic, by law

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure:t10:o1:1
# text = Doughnuts can never be organic, by law
1	Doughnuts	doughnut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	organic	organic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | can | Doughnuts |  |  |  |  | organic *property* | tree rules |

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

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A label doesn't make a food healthy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure:t10:o2:1
# text = A label doesn't make a food healthy
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	label	label	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | a label | a food |  |  |  | healthy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Organic food is always unhealthy for you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure:t10:o3:1
# text = Organic food is always unhealthy for you
1	Organic	organic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	unhealthy	unhealthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Organic food |  |  |  |  | for you; always, unhealthy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Aunts shouldn't be the ones buying food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure:t10:o4:1
# text = Aunts shouldn't be the ones buying food
1	Aunts	aunt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	buying	buy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | should | Aunts | the ones |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **buy** | gerund | the ones *not said here* | food |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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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