Test 6 · ★★★ · Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and h…

«got ants from the shop, no queen, they'll be fine» What will happen?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: ants · What happens: get, be, happen · To what, where: ants, shop · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 330 «Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs» 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	_	2 got	punct
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 got	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 shop	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shop	det
6	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ants	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 queen	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 queen	det
9	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ants	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fine	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fine	nsubj
12	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 fine	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 fine	cop
14	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	conj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 fine	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 happen	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 happen	aux
18	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 got	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	past		ants and no queen	the shop		tree rules
2	is in a quote	future	ants = ant			fine property	tree rules
3	happen	future					vn occur-48.3-1 «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

They will choose a new queen from a worker in a day

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	3 choose	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 choose	aux
3	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 queen	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 queen	amod
6	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 choose	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 worker	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 worker	det
9	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 choose	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 day	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 choose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	future	They	a new queen		a worker	day		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent queen=Theme from worker=Source

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Without a queen laying eggs, the colony will die out in a few months

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Without	without	ADP	_	3 queen	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 queen	det
3	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 die	obl
4	laying	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 queen	acl
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 laying	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 queen	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 colony	det
8	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 die	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 die	aux
10	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 die	compound:prt
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 months	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 months	det
14	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 months	amod
15	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 die	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	gerund	a queen not said here	eggs					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
2	die out	future	the colony				month	without a queen	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

They will live for ever without one

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	3 live	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 live	aux
3	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 ever	case
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 live	obl
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 one	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	future	They					without one	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The biggest ant will lay all the eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ant	det
2	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 ant	amod
3	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 lay	aux
5	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 eggs	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eggs	det
8	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	future	the biggest ant	all eggs					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

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