Test 3 · ★★ · Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges

«wiped the ant line with a wet cloth and now they're running round like idiots» Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: wipe, run · To what, where: ant line

This is test 3 · ★★ 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	_	2 wiped	punct
2	wiped	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 line	det
4	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 line	compound
5	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wiped	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 cloth	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cloth	det
8	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cloth	amod
9	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wiped	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 running	cc
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 running	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 running	nsubj
13	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 running	aux
14	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 wiped	advcl
15	round	round	ADV	_	14 running	advmod
16	like	like	ADP	_	17 idiots	case
17	idiots	idiot	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 Why	obl
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 idiots	punct
19	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 running	advmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wiped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wipe in a quote	past		the ant line				with a wet cloth	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent line=Source
2	run in a quote	present · progressive	they				now	round property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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

They forgot what ants are and where they are meant to be going

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 are	obj
4	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 are	nsubj
5	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 forgot	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 meant	cc
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 meant	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 meant	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 meant	aux:pass
10	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 forgot	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	13 going	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 going	aux
13	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 meant	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	forget	past	They		tree rules
2	does	present	ants		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
3	mean	present · passive		ants = ant	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	go	to-infinitive · progressive			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They are angry at the cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 angry	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	cop
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 cloth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cloth	det
6	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 angry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They			the cloth		angry property	tree rules

Option 3

They are drowning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drowning	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 drowning	aux
3	drowning	drown	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	present · progressive	They						vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The smell trail is gone, so they search until they find it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trail	det
2	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trail	compound
3	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	cop
5	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 search	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 search	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 search	nsubj
9	search	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	conj
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 find	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 find	nsubj
12	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 search	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the smell trail		gone property	tree rules
2	search	present	they			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	find	present	they	trail		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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