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Test 7 · ★★ · Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges

A ladybird lands on a rose full of aphids. What might the ants on the rose do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ladybird, ants · What happens: land, do · To what, where: rose

This is test 7 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A ladybird lands on a rose full of aphids.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ladybird	det
2	ladybird	ladybird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lands	nsubj
3	lands	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 rose	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rose	det
6	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lands	obl
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rose	amod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 aphids	case
9	aphids	aphid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 full	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lands	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	present	a ladybird			a rose			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on rose=Destination

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.

Sentence 2: What might the ants on the rose do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 do	obj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ants	det
4	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	nsubj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 rose	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rose	det
7	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ants	nmod
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	might	the ants on the rose						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Chase it off to protect their aphids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chase	chase	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Chase	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 Chase	compound:prt
4	to	to	PART	_	5 protect	mark
5	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Chase	advcl
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 aphids	nmod:poss
7	aphids	aphid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 protect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase off	imperative	you not said here	it					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	protect	to-infinitive	you not said here	their aphids					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aphid=Beneficiary

Option 2

Ignore it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	it					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Help it eat the aphids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Help	obj
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Help	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 aphids	det
5	aphids	aphid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	imperative	you not said here	it					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	eat	infinitive		the aphids					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aphid=Patient

Option 4

Carry it into their nest as a guest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Carry	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 nest	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 nest	nmod:poss
5	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Carry	obl
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 guest	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 guest	det
8	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Carry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	imperative	you not said here	it		their nest		as a guest	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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