Test 11 · ★★ · Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges
«ant queens just live a summer like flies» What is wrong?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ant queens · What happens: live, be
This is test 11 · ★★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
| 2 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 queens | compound |
| 3 | queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 live | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 live | advmod |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 wrong | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 summer | det |
| 7 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 live | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 flies | case |
| 9 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wrong | obl |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 flies | punct |
| 11 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 wrong | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 wrong | cop |
| 13 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | present | ant queens | summer | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | like flies; wrong 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
Ant queens never die
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ant | ant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 queens | amod |
| 2 | queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 die | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 die | advmod |
| 4 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not die | present | Ant queens | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 2
Right, they all die in a week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | 5 die | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 die | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 die | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 die | advmod |
| 5 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 week | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 week | det |
| 8 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 die | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | they | week | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Queens live for exactly one year and then die
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | nsubj |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 year | case |
| 4 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 5 one | advmod |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 year | nummod |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 live | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 die | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 die | advmod |
| 9 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 live | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Queens | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | die | infinitive | Queens not said here | then | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Some queens can live nearly 30 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 queens | det |
| 2 | queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | aux |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 6 30 | advmod |
| 6 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | can | some queens | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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