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title: Your mate wants to pick up a bright yellow frog on holiday in Colomb… — The amphibian room: poison frogs, axol… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your mate wants to pick up a bright yellow frog on holiday in Colombia. What should you say? Test 7 of lesson 89 «The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog rescue» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 7 · The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog re…

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Your mate wants to pick up a bright yellow frog on holiday in Colombia. What should you say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate, you · **What happens:** want, pick up, say · **To what, where:** bright yellow frog, holiday · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 of lesson 89 «The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog rescue» 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/89-amphibian-room-poison-frogs-axolotls-frog-rescue/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your mate wants to pick up a bright yellow frog on holiday in Colombia.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:89-amphibian-room-poison-frogs-axolotls-frog-rescue:t7:1
# text = Your mate wants to pick up a bright yellow frog on holiday in Colombia.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Colombia	Colombia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | Your mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **pick up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Your mate *not said here* | a bright yellow frog |  | holiday |  | in Colombia | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Topic |

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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 should you say?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:89-amphibian-room-poison-frogs-axolotls-frog-rescue:t7:2
# text = What should you say?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | should | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Fine, as long as you wash your hands well with soap afterwards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:89-amphibian-room-poison-frogs-axolotls-frog-rescue:t7:o1:1
# text = Fine, as long as you wash your hands well with soap afterwards
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wash	wash	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Fine, all frogs are harmless

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:89-amphibian-room-poison-frogs-axolotls-frog-rescue:t7:o2:1
# text = Fine, all frogs are harmless
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	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	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | all Fine frogs |  |  |  |  | harmless *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only red frogs are poisonous

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:89-amphibian-room-poison-frogs-axolotls-frog-rescue:t7:o3:1
# text = Only red frogs are poisonous
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | red frogs |  |  |  |  | poisonous *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Do not touch it; wild bright frogs can be deadly poisonous

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:89-amphibian-room-poison-frogs-axolotls-frog-rescue:t7:o4:1
# text = Do not touch it; wild bright frogs can be deadly poisonous
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
6	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
11	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **touch** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **is** | can | wild bright frogs |  |  |  |  | poisonous *property* | tree rules |

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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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