Test 7 · ★★ · Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choruses, toad…

What would happen if someone put goldfish into a small frog pond?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: someone · What happens: happen, put · To what, where: goldfish, small frog pond

This is test 7 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 put	mark
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 put	nsubj
6	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 put	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	12 pond	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pond	det
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pond	amod
11	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pond	compound
12	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put a condition, not said to happen	past	someone		goldfish	a small frog pond			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent goldfish=Goal

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

Option 1

Nothing would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The frogs would eat the goldfish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 frogs	det
2	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 goldfish	det
6	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would	the frogs	the goldfish					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goldfish=Patient

Option 3

More frogs would grow, because the fish keep the water clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 frogs	amod
2	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 keep	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 keep	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fish	det
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 keep	nsubj
9	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keep	obj
12	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	More frogs						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	present	the fish	the water				clean property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Fewer tadpoles would survive, as fish eat spawn and tadpoles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 tadpoles	amod
2	tadpoles	tadpole	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 survive	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 survive	aux
4	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 eat	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 eat	mark
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eat	nsubj
8	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 survive	conj
9	spawn	spawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eat	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tadpoles	cc
11	tadpoles	tadpole	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 spawn	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	would	Fewer tadpoles						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	present	fish	spawn and tadpoles					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spawn=Patient

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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