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Test 6 · ★★ · Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choruses, toad…

You find long strings of eggs round the weeds in deep water. «frogspawn innit?» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: You · What happens: find, be · To what, where: long strings

This is test 6 · ★★ 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: You find long strings of eggs round the weeds in deep water.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 find	nsubj
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 strings	amod
4	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 find	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 eggs	case
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 strings	nmod
7	round	round	ADP	_	9 weeds	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 weeds	det
9	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eggs	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 water	case
11	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 water	amod
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 weeds	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present	You	long strings of eggs round the weeds in deep water					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Topic

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: «frogspawn innit?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 innit	punct
2	frogspawn	frogspawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 innit	compound
3	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 innit	punct
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 innit	punct

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

Sentence 3: What is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, strings mean toadspawn; frogspawn comes in clumps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 strings	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	toadspawn	toadspawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mean	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 comes	punct
7	frogspawn	frogspawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 comes	nsubj
8	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	parataxis
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 clumps	case
10	clumps	clump	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	strings	toadspawn					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toadspawn=Topic
2	come	present	frogspawn			clumps			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in clump=Location

Option 2

No, they are snail trails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 trails	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 trails	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 trails	cop
5	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trails	compound
6	trails	trail	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

No, they are fish eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 eggs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eggs	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 eggs	cop
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eggs	compound
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Yes, frogspawn always comes in long strings like these

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 frogspawn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	frogspawn	frogspawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 comes	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 comes	advmod
5	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 comes	advmod
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 strings	amod
8	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 comes	obl
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 these	case
10	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 strings	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in	present	frogspawn	long strings like these				always property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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