Test 4 · Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps
The biscuit crumb has all been carried away. What will the ant trail do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ant trail · What happens: carry away, do · To what, where: biscuit crumb
This is test 4 of lesson 36 «Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps» 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: The biscuit crumb has all been carried away.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crumb | det |
| 2 | biscuit | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crumb | compound |
| 3 | crumb | crumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 carried | aux |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 carried | advmod |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 carried | aux:pass |
| 7 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 carried | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 carried | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry away | present · perfect · passive | the biscuit crumb | all, away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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.
Sentence 2: What will the ant trail do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 do | obj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 trail | det |
| 4 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trail | compound |
| 5 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | the ant trail | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It will fade as ants stop adding smell
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 fade | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 fade | aux |
| 3 | fade | fade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 stop | mark |
| 5 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stop | nsubj |
| 6 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fade | advcl |
| 7 | adding | add | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 stop | xcomp |
| 8 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 adding | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fade | future | It | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | stop | present | ants | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | gerund | ants not said here | smell | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Patient |
Option 2
It will last forever
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 last | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 last | aux |
| 3 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 3 last | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | future | It | forever property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
It will move to another biscuit by itself
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 move | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 move | aux |
| 3 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 biscuit | case |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 biscuit | det |
| 6 | biscuit | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 move | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 itself | case |
| 8 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 move | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | future | It | another biscuit | by biscuit | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to biscuit=Trajectory |
Option 4
It will get stronger
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 get | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | aux |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 get | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | future | It | strong property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps/t4/