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What is it most likely? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** friend · **What happens:** pick up, walk, call, be · **To what, where:** bumpy dry walking animal, animal, friend · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 309 «Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choruses, toad crossings and the fire-bellied toad» 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/309-frogs-and-toads-near-home-spawn-croaking-choruses-toad-crossings-and-the-fire-bellied-toad/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A friend picks up a bumpy, dry, slow-walking animal by a British pond and calls it a frog. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:309-frogs-and-toads-near-home-spawn-croaking-choruses-toad-crossings-and-the-fire-bellied-toad:t11:1 # text = A friend picks up a bumpy, dry, slow-walking animal by a British pond and calls it a frog. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 picks pick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 6 bumpy bumpy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 walking walk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 amod _ _ 13 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pick up** | present | a friend | a bumpy dry walking animal | | | | by a British pond | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Topic | | 2 | **walk** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **call** | present | a friend *not said here* | animal | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | 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. *Sentence 2:* What is it most likely? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:309-frogs-and-toads-near-home-spawn-croaking-choruses-toad-crossings-and-the-fire-bellied-toad:t11:2 # text = What is it most likely? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 nsubj _ _ 4 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 5 advmod _ _ 5 likely likely ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | friend | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} A common pond frog ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:309-frogs-and-toads-near-home-spawn-croaking-choruses-toad-crossings-and-the-fire-bellied-toad:t11:o1:1 # text = A common pond frog 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} A common toad ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:309-frogs-and-toads-near-home-spawn-croaking-choruses-toad-crossings-and-the-fire-bellied-toad:t11:o2:1 # text = A common toad 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 toad toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} A great crested newt ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:309-frogs-and-toads-near-home-spawn-croaking-choruses-toad-crossings-and-the-fire-bellied-toad:t11:o3:1 # text = A great crested newt 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 crested crested ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 newt newt NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} A little glass frog ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:309-frogs-and-toads-near-home-spawn-croaking-choruses-toad-crossings-and-the-fire-bellied-toad:t11:o4:1 # text = A little glass frog 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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