Test 11 · Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly, ladybird

«found 2000 frog eggs, so 2000 frogs next year, sweet» What is more likely?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: find, be · To what, where: 2000 frog eggs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 48 «Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly, ladybird» 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	_	2 found	punct
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	2000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 eggs	nummod
4	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eggs	compound
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 found	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sweet	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	13 sweet	advmod
8	2000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 frogs	nummod
9	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sweet	nsubj
10	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 year	amod
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 frogs	nmod:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 frogs	punct
13	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 found	ccomp
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 sweet	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 likely	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 likely	cop
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 likely	advmod
18	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 found	ccomp
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	past		2000 frog eggs					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Topic
2	is	present						likely 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

None ever survive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	root	root
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 survive	advmod
3	survive	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 None	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	present					ever		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Exactly 1000 will survive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	_	2 1000	advmod
2	1000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 survive	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 survive	aux
4	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	future	1000						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Only a handful will become adult frogs

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	5 become	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 become	aux
5	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 frogs	amod
7	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	future	a handful	adult frogs					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

All 2000 will become frogs, if it rains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 2000	det
2	2000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 become	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rains	punct
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 rains	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 rains	nsubj
9	rains	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 become	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	future	all 2000	frogs					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	rain a condition, not said to happen	present	it						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

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