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title: my cousin reckons mushrooms are plants cos they grow in the ground.… — Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things · tree and pragmatics
description: my cousin reckons mushrooms are plants cos they grow in the ground. right? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 77 «Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things» 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 13 · ★ · Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things

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my cousin reckons mushrooms are plants cos they grow in the ground. right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cousin, mushrooms · **What happens:** reckon, be, grow · **To what, where:** plants, ground

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 77 «Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things» 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/77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things:t13:1
# text = my cousin reckons mushrooms are plants cos they grow in the ground. right?
1	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reckons	reckon	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
14	right	right	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | present | my cousin |  |  |  |  | right *property* | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | mushrooms | plants |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | present | mushrooms *= mushroom* |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ground=Location |

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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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Yes, mushrooms are plants without leaves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things:t13:o1:1
# text = Yes, mushrooms are plants without leaves
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | mushrooms | plants |  |  |  | without leaves | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Yes, they make food from sunlight like plants

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things:t13:o2:1
# text = Yes, they make food from sunlight like plants
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | they | food |  | sunlight |  | like plants | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from sunlight=Material |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, mushrooms are tiny animals living in soil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things:t13:o3:1
# text = No, mushrooms are tiny animals living in soil
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | mushrooms | tiny animals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | tiny animals *not said here* |  |  | soil |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in soil=Location |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, mushrooms are fungi and cannot make their own food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things:t13:o4:1
# text = No, mushrooms are fungi and cannot make their own food
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	fungi	fungus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | mushrooms | fungi |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **make** | can | mushrooms *not said here* | mushrooms's own food |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product |

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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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