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Test 5 · ★ · Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, honeypot ants…

In an old film a giant ant the size of a bus stomps across a city. What would really happen?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giant ant · What happens: stomp, happen · To what, where: old film

This is test 5 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: In an old film a giant ant the size of a bus stomps across a city.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 film	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 film	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 film	amod
4	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stomps	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ant	det
6	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ant	amod
7	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stomps	nsubj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 size	det
9	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ant	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 bus	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bus	det
12	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 size	nmod
13	stomps	stomp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	across	across	ADP	_	16 city	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 city	det
16	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stomps	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 stomps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stomp	present	a giant ant			a old film		across a city	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in film=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: What would really happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 happen	advmod
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 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

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

It would collapse, because weight grows faster than strength as size grows

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 collapse	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 collapse	aux
3	collapse	collapse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 grows	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 grows	mark
6	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grows	nsubj
7	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 collapse	conj
8	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 grows	advmod
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 strength	case
10	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 faster	obl
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 grows	mark
12	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grows	nsubj
13	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 grows	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	collapse	would	It						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	grow	present	weight					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	present	size						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It would fly away easily

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 fly	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 fly	advmod
5	easily	easily	ADV	_	3 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	would	It					away, easily property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It would carry the whole city

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 carry	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 carry	aux
3	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 city	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 city	amod
6	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	would	It	the whole city					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It would be even stronger for its size, and could lift the buildings

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	5 stronger	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stronger	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 stronger	cop
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 stronger	advmod
5	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 size	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 size	nmod:poss
8	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stronger	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lift	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lift	cc
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 lift	aux
12	lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 stronger	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 buildings	det
14	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lift	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					for its size; strong property	tree rules
2	lift	could		the buildings					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent building=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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