Test 7 · ★ · Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, honeypot ants…
«got stung by a massive ant in the rainforest, it's nothin innit» What is best?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: massive ant, rainforest · What happens: sting, be · To what, where: nothin innit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 stung | punct |
| 2 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stung | aux:pass |
| 3 | stung | sting | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 ant | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ant | det |
| 6 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ant | amod |
| 7 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stung | obl:agent |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 rainforest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rainforest | det |
| 10 | rainforest | rainforest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ant | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 innit | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 innit | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 innit | cop |
| 14 | nothin | nothin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 innit | amod |
| 15 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stung | conj |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 stung | punct |
| 17 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 best | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 best | cop |
| 19 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 stung | parataxis |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 stung | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sting in a quote | past · passive | a massive ant in the rainforest | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | rainforest | nothin innit | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | good 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It could be a bullet ant, with an extremely painful sting; tell a guide or adult
The tree, 16 words
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 | 6 ant | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 ant | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ant | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ant | det |
| 5 | bullet | bullet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ant | compound |
| 6 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sting | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 sting | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sting | det |
| 10 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 11 painful | advmod |
| 11 | painful | painful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sting | amod |
| 12 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ant | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 tell | punct |
| 14 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ant | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 guide | det |
| 16 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tell | obj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 adult | cc |
| 18 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 guide | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | could | It | a bullet ant and a painful sting | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | a guide or adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent guide=Recipient |
Option 2
Go and poke the nest to check
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 poke | cc |
| 3 | poke | poke | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 nest | det |
| 5 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 poke | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 check | mark |
| 7 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 poke | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | poke | infinitive | you not said here | the nest | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent nest=Theme | ||||
| 3 | check | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Ant stings never hurt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ant | ant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 stings | amod |
| 2 | stings | sting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hurt | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 hurt | advmod |
| 4 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hurt | past | Ant stings | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
Rub it with another ant to cure it, that's what the locals do
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rub | rub | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Rub | obj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 ant | case |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 ant | det |
| 5 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rub | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 cure | mark |
| 7 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Rub | advcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cure | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 what | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 what | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 what | cop |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 1 Rub | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 locals | det |
| 14 | locals | local | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 do | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 what | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | imperative | you not said here | it | with another ant | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with ant=Theme | |||
| 2 | cure | to-infinitive | you not said here | ant | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer it=Source | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do | present | the locals | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants/t7/