Test 11 · ★ · Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, honeypot ants…

Why might a farmer prefer weaver ants to sprays on some trees?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: farmer · What happens: prefer · To what, where: weaver ants

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 304 «Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, honeypot ants and trap-jaw ants» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 prefer	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 prefer	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 farmer	det
4	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prefer	nsubj
5	prefer	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	weaver	weaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ants	compound
7	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 prefer	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 sprays	case
9	sprays	spray	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 prefer	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 trees	case
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 trees	det
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sprays	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 prefer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prefer	might	a farmer	weaver ants				to sprays on some trees	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ant=Stimulus

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

Sprays are always illegal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sprays	spray	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 illegal	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 illegal	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 illegal	advmod
4	illegal	illegal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Sprays					always, illegal property	tree rules

Option 2

Ants water the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 water	compound
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trees	det
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 water	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Ants make the fruit much sweeter by dripping their honey on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fruit	det
4	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 sweeter	advmod
6	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp
7	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 dripping	mark
8	dripping	drip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 make	advcl
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 honey	nmod:poss
10	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dripping	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dripping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Ants	the fruit				sweet property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fruit=Product
2	drip	gerund	Ants not said here	Ants's honey		honey			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location honey=Source

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The ants eat pests and leave no chemicals on the fruit

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	3 eat	nsubj
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	pests	pest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 leave	cc
6	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	conj
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 chemicals	det
8	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 leave	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 fruit	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fruit	det
11	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	the ants	pests					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pest=Patient
2	leave	present	the ants not said here	no chemicals		the fruit			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent chemical=Theme on fruit=Location

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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