Test 10 · ★ · The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scor…

Why are dung beetles good friends to farmers?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: dung beetles

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 97 «The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions» 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	4 beetles	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 beetles	cop
3	dung	dung	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beetles	compound
4	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 friends	nsubj
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 friends	amod
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 farmers	case
8	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 friends	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 friends	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		dung beetles					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

They eat the slugs living on the farmers' crops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 slugs	det
4	slugs	slug	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj
5	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 slugs	acl
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 crops	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 farmers	det
8	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 crops	nmod:poss
9	'	's	PART	_	8 farmers	case
10	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 living	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	They	the slugs					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slug=Patient
2	live	gerund	the slugs not said here			the farmers's crops			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on crop=Location

Option 2

They pollinate the wheat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pollinate	nsubj
2	pollinate	pollinate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wheat	det
4	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pollinate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pollinate	present	They	the wheat					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They clear away and bury dung in the fields

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 clear	nsubj
2	clear	clear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 clear	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bury	cc
5	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 clear	conj
6	dung	dung	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bury	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 fields	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fields	det
9	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bury	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clear away	present	They					away property	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source
2	bury	infinitive	They not said here	dung		the fields			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dung=Theme in field=Destination

Option 4

They frighten away crows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 frighten	nsubj
2	frighten	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 frighten	advmod
4	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 frighten	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten away	present	They	crows				away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus crow=Experiencer

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