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title: Why would a common frog leave its pond after spring and live under l… — Frogs, toads, newts and salamanders · tree and pragmatics
description: Why would a common frog leave its pond after spring and live under logs? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 32 «Frogs, toads, newts and salamanders» 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 right.
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# Test 12 · ★ · Frogs, toads, newts and salamanders

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Why would a common frog leave its pond after spring and live under logs?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** common frog · **What happens:** leave, live · **To what, where:** pond, logs

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 32 «Frogs, toads, newts and salamanders» 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/32-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:32-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders:t12:1
# text = Why would a common frog leave its pond after spring and live under logs?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	under	under	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	logs	log	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | would | a common frog | frog's pond |  |  | spring |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pond=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | present | a common frog *not said here* |  |  | logs |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under log=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Adult frogs hunt on land and only need the pond to breed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:32-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders:t12:o1:1
# text = Adult frogs hunt on land and only need the pond to breed
1	Adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	breed	breed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | present | Adult frogs |  |  | land |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent on land=Location |
| 2 | **need** | present | Adult frogs *not said here* | the pond |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **breed** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the pond *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Ponds are too cold in summer for any animal to live in them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:32-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders:t12:o2:1
# text = Ponds are too cold in summer for any animal to live in them
1	Ponds	pond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Ponds |  |  |  | summer | for any animal; cold *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | to-infinitive | Ponds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in Ponds *= pond* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in they=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Frogs cannot swim once they are adults

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:32-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders:t12:o3:1
# text = Frogs cannot swim once they are adults
1	Frogs	frog	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	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	adults	adult	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** **swim** | can | Frogs |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Frogs *= frog* |  |  |  |  | once adults | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Fish chase all frogs out of ponds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:32-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders:t12:o4:1
# text = Fish chase all frogs out of ponds
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	chase	chase	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	ponds	pond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase** | present | Fish | frogs |  | ponds |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent frog=Theme out pond=Trajectory |

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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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