Test 2 · The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees an…

«frogs lay like 2000 eggs, the pond's gonna be FULL of frogs lol» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: frogs, gonna · What happens: lay, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 of lesson 333 «The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct
2	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 eggs	case
5	2000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 eggs	nummod
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lay	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 FULL	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pond	det
9	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gonna	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 pond	case
11	gonna	gonna	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 FULL	nsubj
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 FULL	cop
13	FULL	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lay	advcl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 frogs	case
15	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 FULL	obl
16	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 lay	discourse
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 right	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 right	cop
20	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lay	parataxis
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	lay in a quote	present	frogs	like 2000 eggs	tree rules
2	is in a quote	infinitive	the pond's gonna	of frogs; full property	tree rules
3	is	present		right property	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

Only a few out of every thousand will grow into frogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 few	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 few	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	9 grow	mark
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 thousand	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 thousand	det
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 grow	obl
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 grow	aux
9	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 few	advcl
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 frogs	case
11	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grow	obl

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

Option 2

The eggs turn into fish instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eggs	det
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	nsubj
3	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 fish	case
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 turn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	the eggs					into fish result; instead property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into fish=Result

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Every egg becomes a frog, so yes, the pond will be full by summer

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 egg	det
2	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 becomes	nsubj
3	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 frog	det
5	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 becomes	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 full	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	14 full	advmod
8	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	14 full	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 yes	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pond	det
11	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 full	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 full	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 full	cop
14	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 becomes	parataxis
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 summer	case
16	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	every egg	a frog					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	is	future	the pond				summer	full property	tree rules

Option 4

Frogs eat all their eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 eggs	det:predet
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eggs	nmod:poss
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Frogs	Frogs's eggs					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient

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