Test 5 · ★ · The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flyin…

Why would ants from many nests all fly at the same time?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ants · What happens: fly

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 fly	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 fly	aux
3	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fly	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 nests	case
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nests	amod
6	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ants	nmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 fly	advmod
8	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 time	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 time	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fly	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 fly	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	would	ants from many nests				time		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

Because one ant tells all the others by phone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 tells	mark
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 ant	nummod
3	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tells	nsubj
4	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 others	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 others	det
7	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tells	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 phone	case
9	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tells	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	one ant	all others				by phone	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent other=Recipient

Option 2

Because the nests are flooded

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 flooded	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nests	det
3	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flooded	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 flooded	aux:pass
5	flooded	flood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flood	present · passive		the nests					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 3

Because they are chasing swifts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 chasing	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chasing	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 chasing	aux
4	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	swifts	swift	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chasing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	present · progressive	they	swifts					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swift=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

So young queens and males from different nests can meet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	10 meet	advmod
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 queens	amod
3	queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 meet	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 males	cc
5	males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 queens	conj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 nests	case
7	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nests	amod
8	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 males	nmod
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 meet	aux
10	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	can	young queens and males from different nests						vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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