Test 6 · ★ · Frogs, toads, newts and salamanders

A frog from 1,000 eggs: how many will usually grow into adult frogs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many · What happens: grow

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 32 «Frogs, toads, newts and salamanders» 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 frog	det
2	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 eggs	case
4	1,000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 eggs	nummod
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 frog	nmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 grow	punct
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 many	advmod
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grow	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 grow	aux
10	usually	usually	ADV	_	11 grow	advmod
11	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 frog	parataxis
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 frogs	case
13	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 frogs	amod
14	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 grow	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 frog	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	future	many					into adult frogs result; usually property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into frog=Result

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 · ← Mova's choice

Almost all of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Almost	almost	ADV	_	2 all	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 all	nmod

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

Option 2

About a hundred, every time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	3 hundred	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hundred	det
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 time	punct
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hundred	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Only a handful, as most are eaten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 handful	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 handful	det
3	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 handful	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 eaten	mark
6	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 eaten	nsubj:pass
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 eaten	aux:pass
8	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 handful	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present · passive	a handful not said here	most					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Exactly half

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	_	2 half	advmod
2	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	root	root

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

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