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Test 11 · More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles, apes' bed…

A bird sits on a wood ants' nest and lets ants climb on it. Why might it do that?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: bird, ants · What happens: sit, let, climb, do · To what, where: nest, ants, that

This is test 11 of lesson 245 «More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles, apes' beds and sand circles» 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 bird sits on a wood ants' nest and lets ants climb on it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sits	nsubj
3	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	9 nest	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ants	det
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ants	compound
7	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 nest	nmod:poss
8	'	's	PART	_	7 ants	case
9	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sits	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lets	cc
11	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sits	conj
12	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lets	obj
13	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 lets	xcomp
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 climb	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sits	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	a bird			a wood ants's nest			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on nest=Location
2	let	present	a bird not said here	ants					tree rules
3	climb	infinitive	ants not said here					on bird	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory

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: Why might it do that?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 do	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 do	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

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

The options

Option 1

It is stuck in the nest and cannot fly away again

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 stuck	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stuck	cop
3	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 nest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nest	det
6	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stuck	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fly	cc
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 fly	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 fly	advmod
10	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stuck	conj
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 fly	advmod
12	again	again	ADV	_	10 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			the nest		stuck property	tree rules
2	not fly away	can					again	away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It is building its own nest there

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 building	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 building	aux
3	building	build	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 nest	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nest	amod
6	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 building	obj
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 building	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present · progressive	It	its own nest		there			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material nest=Product

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

The ants' acid may clean parasites off its feathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ants	det
2	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 acid	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 ants	case
4	acid	acid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clean	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 clean	aux
6	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	parasites	parasite	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 clean	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	10 feathers	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 feathers	nmod:poss
10	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 clean	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	may	the ants's acid	parasites		acid's feathers			vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent parasite=Theme off feather=Source

Option 4

It is trying to hatch the ant eggs

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 trying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trying	aux
3	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hatch	mark
5	hatch	hatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trying	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eggs	det
7	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eggs	compound
8	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hatch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	It						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	hatch not said to happen	to-infinitive		the ant eggs					vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent egg=Product

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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