Test 8 · ★ · Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, honeypot ants…

What would happen if a desert ant's legs were shortened?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, shorten · To what, where: legs

This is test 8 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 shortened	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ant	det
6	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ant	compound
7	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 legs	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 ant	case
9	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 shortened	nsubj:pass
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 shortened	aux:pass
11	shortened	shorten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 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
2	shorten a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		a desert ant's legs					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

It would stop short of its nest

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 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stop	xcomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 nest	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 nest	nmod:poss
7	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 short	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	It					short property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It would walk too far past its nest

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 walk	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 walk	aux
3	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 far	advmod
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 walk	advmod
6	past	past	ADP	_	8 nest	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 nest	nmod:poss
8	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	would	It			its nest		far property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past nest=Trajectory

Option 3

It would walk exactly home anyway

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 walk	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 walk	aux
3	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 home	advmod
5	home	home	ADV	_	3 walk	advmod
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	3 walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	would	It					anyway, home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It would forget where north is at once

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 forget	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 forget	aux
3	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 is	advmod
5	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 is	nsubj
6	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 forget	ccomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 forget	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	would	It						tree rules
2	be	present	north						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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