Test 6 · ★★ · Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges

«saw ants dragging a dead ant out, is that a funeral» What is going on?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: ants, funeral · What happens: see, drag out, be · To what, where: ants, dead ant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ 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 saw	punct
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saw	obj
4	dragging	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 ants	acl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ant	det
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ant	amod
7	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dragging	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	4 dragging	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 going	cop
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 going	mark
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 funeral	det
13	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 going	nsubj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 funeral	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 going	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 going	aux
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 saw	ccomp
18	on	on	ADP	_	17 going	compound:prt
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	past		ants		tree rules
2	drag out in a quote	gerund	ants not said here	a dead ant		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ant=Theme
3	is	present · progressive	a funeral		go 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

They want to eat it in the nest, where it is safe from birds

The tree, 14 words

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 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 eat	mark
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eat	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 nest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 nest	det
8	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 safe	punct
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 safe	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 safe	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 safe	cop
13	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 want	conj
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 birds	case
15	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 safe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	present	They				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here	it	the nest		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	is	present	nest			from birds; safe property	tree rules

Option 2

They are taking it to a doctor

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 taking	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 taking	aux
3	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 taking	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 doctor	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 doctor	det
7	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present · progressive	They	it		a doctor			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to doctor=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They take dead nestmates to a rubbish pile to keep germs away

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 take	nsubj
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nestmates	amod
4	nestmates	nestmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 take	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 pile	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pile	det
7	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pile	compound
8	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 take	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 keep	mark
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 take	advcl
11	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 keep	obj
12	away	away	ADV	_	10 keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	They	dead nestmates		a rubbish pile			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nestmate=Theme to pile=Destination
2	keep away	to-infinitive	They not said here	germs				away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme

Option 4

They are burying it with flowers

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 burying	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 burying	aux
3	burying	bury	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 burying	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 flowers	case
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 burying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	present · progressive	They	it				with flowers	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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