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title: «wicked, a red frog, gonna pick it up» Which is the best answer? — The rainforest from below: understorey… · tree and pragmatics
description: «wicked, a red frog, gonna pick it up» Which is the best answer? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 3 «The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor» of the biology 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 4 · ★ · The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor

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«wicked, a red frog, gonna pick it up» Which is the best answer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** red frog · **What happens:** pick up, be · **To what, where:** it, best answer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 3 «The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor» of the biology 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/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:3-the-rainforest-from-below:t4:1
# text = «wicked, a red frog, gonna pick it up» Which is the best answer?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	dep	_	_
9	pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
13	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick up** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 2 | **be** *speech: assert* | present | a red frog and the best answer | the best answer |  |  |  |  | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Only touch it with one finger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:3-the-rainforest-from-below:t4:o1:1
# text = Only touch it with one finger
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | with one finger | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with finger=Instrument |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Fine, all frogs are safe to hold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:3-the-rainforest-from-below:t4:o2:1
# text = Fine, all frogs are safe to hold
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | all frogs |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | to-infinitive | all frogs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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Don't, never touch a wild brightly coloured frog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:3-the-rainforest-from-below:t4:o3:1
# text = Don't, never touch a wild brightly coloured frog
1	Do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	coloured	colour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **touch** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a wild coloured frog |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme frog=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **colour** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | brightly *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Fine, just wash your hands well afterwards with soap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:3-the-rainforest-from-below:t4:o4:1
# text = Fine, just wash your hands well afterwards with soap
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
8	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash** | infinitive |  | your hands |  |  |  | with soap; afterwards, well *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with soap=Instrument |

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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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