Test 9 · ★ · Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, honeypot ants…

Why are honeypot repletes useful when there is no food outside?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: honeypot, food · What happens: be, replete · To what, where: honeypot

This is test 9 · ★ 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	3 honeypot	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 honeypot	cop
3	honeypot	honeypot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 repletes	nsubj
4	repletes	replete	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 repletes	xcomp
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 is	advmod
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 is	expl
8	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 repletes	advcl
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 food	det
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 is	nsubj
11	outside	outside	ADV	_	8 is	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 repletes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		honeypot			tree rules
2	replete	present	honeypot			useful property	tree rules
3	be	present	no food		there	outside property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

They feed the other ants from their stored liquid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feed	nsubj
2	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ants	det
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ants	amod
5	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 feed	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 liquid	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 liquid	nmod:poss
8	stored	store	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 liquid	amod
9	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present	They	the other ants		ants's stored liquid			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ant=Recipient
2	store	participle							vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They go out and find new food far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 go	nsubj
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 go	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 find	cc
5	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 go	conj
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 food	amod
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	obj
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 away	advmod
9	away	away	ADV	_	5 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	present	They					out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find	present	They not said here	new food				away property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic

Option 3

They lay extra eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eggs	amod
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	They	extra eggs					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

Option 4

They dig deeper tunnels to reach water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dig	nsubj
2	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 tunnels	amod
4	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dig	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 reach	mark
6	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 dig	advcl
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	present	They	deeper tunnels					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tunnel=Theme
2	reach	to-infinitive	They not said here	water					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent water=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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