Test 4 · ★ · The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flyin…

«the ants are milking the aphids like cows, lol that's not real» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ants, that · What happens: milk, not be, be · To what, where: aphids · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 334 «The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day» 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	_	5 milking	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ants	det
3	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 milking	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 milking	aux
5	milking	milk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 real	csubj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 aphids	det
7	aphids	aphid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 milking	obj
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 cows	case
9	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 aphids	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 milking	punct
11	lol	lol	INTJ	_	15 real	discourse
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 real	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 real	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 real	advmod
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 real	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 right	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 right	cop
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 real	parataxis
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	milk in a quote	present · progressive	the ants	the aphids	like cows	vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aphid=Source
2	not is in a quote	present	that		real property	tree rules
3	is	present			right 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 is real: ants drink their honeydew and guard them

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 real	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 real	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 drink	punct
5	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 drink	nsubj
6	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 real	parataxis
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 honeydew	nmod:poss
8	honeydew	honeydew	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drink	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 guard	cc
10	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 drink	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 guard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		real property	tree rules
2	drink	present	ants	ants's honeydew		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honeydew=Patient
3	guard	infinitive	ants not said here	ants = ant		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary

Option 2

Ants and aphids never meet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 meet	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 aphids	cc
3	aphids	aphid	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ants	conj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 meet	advmod
5	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not meet	present	Ants and aphids						vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Not real, ants only ever eat aphids and never look after them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 real	advmod
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ants	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 real	punct
4	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eat	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 eat	advmod
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 eat	advmod
7	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	aphids	aphid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eat	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 look	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 look	advmod
11	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 eat	conj
12	after	after	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	real ants	aphids			ever		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aphid=Patient
2	not look	infinitive	real ants not said here				after ants = ant		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Aphids milk the ants instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aphids	aphid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 milk	compound
2	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ants	compound
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ants	det
4	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 ants	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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