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title: A frog from 1,000 eggs: how many will usually grow into adult frogs? — Frogs, toads, newts and salamanders · tree and pragmatics
description: A frog from 1,000 eggs: how many will usually grow into adult frogs? Test 6 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 6 · ★ · Frogs, toads, newts and salamanders

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A frog from 1,000 eggs: how many will usually grow into adult frogs?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many · **What happens:** grow

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:32-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders:t6:1
# text = A frog from 1,000 eggs: how many will usually grow into adult frogs?
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	1,000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | future | many |  |  |  |  | into adult frogs *result*; usually *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into frog=Result |

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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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Almost all of them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:32-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders:t6:o1:1
# text = Almost all of them
1	Almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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About a hundred, every time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:32-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders:t6:o2:1
# text = About a hundred, every time
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

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Only a handful, as most are eaten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:32-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders:t6:o3:1
# text = Only a handful, as most are eaten
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present · passive | a handful *not said here* | most |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Exactly half

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:32-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders:t6:o4:1
# text = Exactly half
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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