Test 5 · ★★ · Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges

What would happen if leafcutter ants lost their fungus garden?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: leafcutter ants · What happens: happen, lose · To what, where: fungus garden

This is test 5 · ★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 lost	mark
5	leafcutter	leafcutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ants	compound
6	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lost	nsubj
7	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 garden	nmod:poss
9	fungus	fungus	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 garden	compound
10	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lose a condition, not said to happen	past	leafcutter ants	ants's fungus garden					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Eventuality

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

They would farm aphids instead at once

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 farm	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 farm	aux
3	farm	farm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	aphids	aphid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 farm	obj
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 farm	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 farm	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	farm	would	They	aphids				instead property	vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aphid=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, they eat the leaves anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 eat	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 leaves	det
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	they	the leaves				Nothing vocative; anyway property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They would lose their food

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 lose	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 food	nmod:poss
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	They	their food					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Eventuality

Option 4

They would grow wings and fly off

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 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fly	cc
6	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 grow	conj
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 fly	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	They	wings					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme
2	fly off	infinitive	They not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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