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title: What reason did the Frog give for avoiding argument? — The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The… · tree and pragmatics
description: What reason did the Frog give for avoiding argument? Exam question 3 of lesson 2040 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, part 2: the Rocket sulks in the mud and boasts to a Frog and a Dragon-fly» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Exam question 3 · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, p…

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What reason did the Frog give for avoiding argument?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** reason, Frog · **What happens:** do, give, avoid · **To what, where:** argument

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 2040 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, part 2: the Rocket sulks in the mud and boasts to a Frog and a Dragon-fly» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/books/2040-pg902-part10/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2040-pg902-part10:e3:1
# text = What reason did the Frog give for avoiding argument?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Frog	Frog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	avoiding	avoid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | reason |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | present | the Frog |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **avoid** | gerund | the Frog *not said here* | argument |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent argument=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 {#o1}

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It is just a silly habit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2040-pg902-part10:e3:o1:1
# text = It is just a silly habit
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a silly habit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Arguments are extremely vulgar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2040-pg902-part10:e3:o2:1
# text = Arguments are extremely vulgar
1	Arguments	argument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	vulgar	vulgar	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 | Arguments |  |  |  |  | extremely, vulgar *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Arguments are awfully dull things

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2040-pg902-part10:e3:o3:1
# text = Arguments are awfully dull things
1	Arguments	argument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	awfully	awfully	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Arguments | dull things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They are vulgar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2040-pg902-part10:e3:o4:1
# text = They are vulgar
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	vulgar	vulgar	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 | They |  |  |  |  | vulgar *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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