Test 3 · ★ · Kindness to wild animals

«just poking the ants nest with a stick lol, they're only ants» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ants, best answer · What happens: poke, nest, be · To what, where: ants · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 226 «Kindness to wild animals» 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 poking	punct
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 poking	advmod
3	poking	poke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ants	det
5	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 nest	nsubj
6	nest	nest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 poking	ccomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 stick	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stick	det
9	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nest	obl
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 poking	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ants	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ants	nsubj
13	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 ants	cop
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 ants	advmod
15	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 poking	obl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 ants	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 poking	obl
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 What	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 answer	det
20	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 answer	amod
21	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 What	nsubj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 poking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	poke in a quote	gerund				tree rules
2	nest in a quote	present	the ants		with a stick	vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	ants = ant	ants		tree rules
4	is a	present	the best answer			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

Leave them; even small creatures matter and feel threatened

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 matter	punct
4	even	even	ADV	_	6 creatures	advmod
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 creatures	amod
6	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 matter	nsubj
7	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 feel	cc
9	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 matter	conj
10	threatened	threaten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	them = they	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	matter	present	small creatures		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
3	feel	present	small creatures not said here		vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	threaten	participle	small creatures not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Fine, ants feel nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ants	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fine	punct
3	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feel	nsubj
4	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 feel	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 feel	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	Fine ants	nothing		all			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme at all=Location

Option 3

Poke harder so they all come out to play with you in the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poke	poke	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Poke	advmod
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Poke	advcl
7	out	out	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 play	mark
9	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Poke	advcl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 play	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 sun	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sun	det
14	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	poke	imperative	you not said here		hard property	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	come out	present	they		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	play	to-infinitive	you not said here	the sun	with you	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with you=Co-Agent

Option 4

Fine, it helps the ants get exercise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 helps	ccomp
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fine	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 helps	nsubj
4	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ants	det
6	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 helps	obj
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 helps	xcomp
8	exercise	exercise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	it	the ants					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent ant=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	get	infinitive	the ants not said here	exercise					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer exercise=Stimulus

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