Test 10 · ★★ · Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges
A termite nest and an ant nest. Which has a king?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: have · To what, where: king
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 238 «Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges» 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
Sentence 1: A termite nest and an ant nest.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 nest | det |
| 2 | termite | termite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nest | compound |
| 3 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 nest | cc |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 nest | det |
| 6 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nest | compound |
| 7 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nest | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 nest | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Which has a king?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a king | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Both of them have one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 have | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Both | nmod |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 have | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Both | one | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
Option 2
The ant nest, always
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 nest | det |
| 2 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nest | compound |
| 3 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 nest | punct |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 nest | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The termite nest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 nest | det |
| 2 | termite | termite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nest | compound |
| 3 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Neither of them has one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 has | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Neither | nmod |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Neither | one | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
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