Test 2 · ★★ · Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges

«they made a giant ant in a film, it must be super strong» What would really happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: they, ant · What happens: make, be, happen · To what, where: giant ant, film

This is test 2 · ★★ 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	_	3 made	punct
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ant	det
5	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ant	amod
6	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 film	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 film	det
9	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ant	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 strong	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 strong	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 strong	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 strong	cop
14	super	super	ADV	_	15 strong	advmod
15	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 made	conj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 happen	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 happen	aux
19	really	really	ADV	_	20 happen	advmod
20	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	conj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	past	they	a giant ant	a film		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ant=Product
2	is in a quote	must	ant			strong, super property	tree rules
3	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Its legs could hardly hold its weight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 legs	nmod:poss
2	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hold	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hold	aux
4	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	5 hold	advmod
5	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 weight	nmod:poss
7	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	could	Its legs	its weight				hardly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme

Option 2

It could lift a bus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lift	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lift	aux
3	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bus	det
5	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lift	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	could	It	a bus					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bus=Theme

Option 3

It would be faster than a car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 faster	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 faster	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 faster	cop
4	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 car	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 car	det
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 faster	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					than a car; fast property	tree rules

Option 4

It would fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fly	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	would	It						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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