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title: caught some tadpoles, gonna keep em in my room — Litter and caring for nature · tree and pragmatics
description: caught some tadpoles, gonna keep em in my room Test 12 · ★ of lesson 239 «Litter and caring for nature» of the everyday 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 12 · ★ · Litter and caring for nature

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caught some tadpoles, gonna keep em in my room

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** catch, keep · **To what, where:** tadpoles, em, room

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 239 «Litter and caring for nature» of the everyday 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/everyday/239-litter-and-caring-for-nature/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:239-litter-and-caring-for-nature:t12:1
# text = caught some tadpoles, gonna keep em in my room
1	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	tadpoles	tadpole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	dep	_	_
6	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
7	em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past |  | some tadpoles |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tadpole=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive |  | em *= they* |  | my room |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in room=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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Yes, they love jam jars on a sunny windowsill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:239-litter-and-caring-for-nature:t12:o1:1
# text = Yes, they love jam jars on a sunny windowsill
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	jam	jam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	jars	jar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	windowsill	windowsill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | present | they | jam jars |  | a sunny windowsill |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jar=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, feed them bread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:239-litter-and-caring-for-nature:t12:o2:1
# text = Yes, feed them bread
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	feed	feed	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient bread=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only for a few weeks till they're frogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:239-litter-and-caring-for-nature:t12:o3:1
# text = Only for a few weeks till they're frogs
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	till	till	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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No, look and put them back in their pond

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:239-litter-and-caring-for-nature:t12:o4:1
# text = No, look and put them back in their pond
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **put back** | infinitive | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  | their pond |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in pond=Destination |

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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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