Test 7 · ★★★ · Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and h…

Scientists dab the «dead ant» smell on a living ant. What happens?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Scientists · What happens: dab, happen · To what, where: ant smell, living ant

This is test 7 · ★★★ 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

Sentence 1: Scientists dab the «dead ant» smell on a living ant.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dab	nsubj
2	dab	dab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 smell	det
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 ant	punct
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ant	amod
6	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 smell	compound
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 ant	punct
8	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dab	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 ant	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 ant	det
11	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ant	compound
12	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 smell	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dab	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dab	present	Scientists	the ant smell		a living ant			vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent smell=Theme on ant=Destination

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 happens?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Nothing, because ants judge death by looking, not by smell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 judge	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 judge	mark
4	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 judge	nsubj
5	judge	judge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	parataxis
6	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 judge	obj
7	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 looking	mark
8	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 judge	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 smell	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 smell	advmod
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 smell	case
12	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	judge	present	ants	death					vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent death=Value
2	look	gerund	ants not said here					by smell	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by smell=Theme

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

Its sisters carry it out to the dead pile even though it is alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sisters	nmod:poss
2	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carry	nsubj
3	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 carry	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	3 carry	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 pile	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pile	det
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pile	amod
9	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carry	obl
10	even	even	ADV	_	14 alive	advmod
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 alive	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 alive	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 alive	cop
14	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 carry	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry out	present	Its sisters	it				to the dead pile	vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	is	present	pile					alive property	tree rules

Option 3

The queen eats it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eats	nsubj
3	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 eats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	the queen	it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

The ant dies at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ant	det
2	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dies	nsubj
3	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 dies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	the ant						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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