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title: A pupil says mushrooms are plants because they grow from the ground.… — Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things · tree and pragmatics
description: A pupil says mushrooms are plants because they grow from the ground. What is the mistake? Test 7 · ★ 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 right
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# Test 7 · ★ · Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things

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A pupil says mushrooms are plants because they grow from the ground. What is the mistake?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** pupil, mushrooms, mistake · **What happens:** say, be, grow · **To what, where:** plants · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A pupil says mushrooms are plants because they grow from the ground.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things:t7:1
# text = A pupil says mushrooms are plants because they grow from the ground.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	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	ccomp	_	_
7	because	because	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	from	from	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	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a pupil |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | mushrooms | plants |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | present | mushrooms *= mushroom* |  |  |  |  | from the ground | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from ground=Patient |

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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 the mistake?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things:t7:2
# text = What is the mistake?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the mistake |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Mushrooms are really animals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things:t7:o1:1
# text = Mushrooms are really animals
1	Mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Mushrooms | animals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Mushrooms do not grow from the ground

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things:t7:o2:1
# text = Mushrooms do not grow from the ground
1	Mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **grow** | present · do-support | Mushrooms |  |  |  |  | from the ground | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from ground=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Plants never grow from the ground

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things:t7:o3:1
# text = Plants never grow from the ground
1	Plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **grow** | present | Plants |  |  |  |  | from the ground | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from ground=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Fungi cannot make their own food like plants

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things:t7:o4:1
# text = Fungi cannot make their own food like plants
1	Fungi	fungus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
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 | **not** **make** | can | Fungi | Fungi's own food |  |  |  | like plants | 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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