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Test 11 · ★★ · Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choruses, toad…

A friend picks up a bumpy, dry, slow-walking animal by a British pond and calls it a frog. What is it most likely?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend · What happens: pick up, walk, call, be · To what, where: bumpy dry walking animal, animal, friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 309 «Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choruses, toad crossings and the fire-bellied toad» 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.

The question

Sentence 1: A friend picks up a bumpy, dry, slow-walking animal by a British pond and calls it a frog.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 picks	nsubj
3	picks	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 picks	compound:prt
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 animal	det
6	bumpy	bumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 animal	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bumpy	punct
8	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 animal	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dry	punct
10	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 walking	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 slow	punct
12	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 animal	amod
13	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 picks	obj
14	by	by	ADP	_	17 pond	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 pond	det
16	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pond	amod
17	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 picks	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 calls	cc
19	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 picks	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 calls	obj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 frog	det
22	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 calls	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 picks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	present	a friend	a bumpy dry walking animal				by a British pond	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Topic
2	walk	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	call	present	a friend not said here	animal					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

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.

Sentence 2: What is it most likely?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 it	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 What	nsubj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 likely	advmod
5	likely	likely	ADV	_	1 What	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		friend					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A common pond frog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 frog	det
2	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 frog	amod
3	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frog	compound
4	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A common toad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 toad	det
2	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 toad	amod
3	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A great crested newt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 newt	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 newt	amod
3	crested	crested	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 newt	amod
4	newt	newt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A little glass frog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 frog	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 frog	amod
3	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frog	compound
4	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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