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title: A child finds jelly with black dots in a pond in spring. What will t… — Life cycles · tree and pragmatics
description: A child finds jelly with black dots in a pond in spring. What will the dots become first? Test 1 of lesson 25 «Life cycles» 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 1 · Life cycles

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A child finds jelly with black dots in a pond in spring. What will the dots become first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** child, dots · **What happens:** find, become · **To what, where:** jelly

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This is test 1 of lesson 25 «Life cycles» 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/25-life-cycles/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A child finds jelly with black dots in a pond in spring.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:25-life-cycles:t1:1
# text = A child finds jelly with black dots in a pond in spring.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	jelly	jelly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	dots	dot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | a child | jelly |  |  |  | with black dots in a pond in spring | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jelly=Topic |

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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 will the dots become first?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:25-life-cycles:t1:2
# text = What will the dots become first?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dots	dot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | future | the dots |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient what=Result |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Fish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:25-life-cycles:t1:o1:1
# text = Fish
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Caterpillars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:25-life-cycles:t1:o2:1
# text = Caterpillars
1	Caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Frogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:25-life-cycles:t1:o3:1
# text = Frogs
1	Frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Tadpoles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:25-life-cycles:t1:o4:1
# text = Tadpoles
1	Tadpoles	tadpole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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