Test 8 · Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fl…

What would happen if you wiped an ant trail with soapy water?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, wipe · To what, where: ant trail

This is test 8 of lesson 397 «Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 wiped	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 wiped	nsubj
6	wiped	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 trail	det
8	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trail	compound
9	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wiped	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 water	case
11	soapy	soapy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 water	amod
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wiped	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wipe a condition, not said to happen	past	you	a ant trail				with soapy water	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent trail=Source

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 · ✓ the right answer

The ants would lose the smell trail and get confused

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ants	det
2	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lose	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lose	aux
4	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trail	det
6	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trail	compound
7	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 get	cc
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lose	conj
10	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	the ants	the smell trail					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Eventuality
2	get	infinitive	the ants not said here					confused property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Nothing, ants follow sight only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 ants	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 follow	nsubj
4	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 follow	obj
6	only	only	ADV	_	4 follow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	present	Nothing ants	sight					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme

Option 3

The ants would turn into flies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ants	det
2	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 flies	case
6	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the ants					into flies result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into fly=Result

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The ants would follow it even faster, because they like the soap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ants	det
2	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 follow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 follow	aux
4	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 follow	obj
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 faster	advmod
7	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 follow	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 like	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 like	nsubj
11	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 follow	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 soap	det
13	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 like	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	would	the ants	it				fast property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	like	present	ants = ant	the soap					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot soap=Theme

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