Test 8 · ★ · The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scor…

How is a leafcutter ant colony like a farm?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ant colony · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 How	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 colony	det
4	leafcutter	leafcutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ant	compound
5	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 colony	compound
6	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 How	nsubj
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 farm	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 farm	det
9	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 colony	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 How	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a ant colony like a farm					how 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

It plants trees in rows

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 trees	nsubj
2	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trees	compound
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 rows	case
5	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trees	nmod

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

Option 2

It sells food to other ants

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	2 sells	nsubj
2	sells	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sells	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 ants	case
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ants	amod
6	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sells	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	present	It	food	other ants				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent food=Theme to ant=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It grows a crop of fungus to eat

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	2 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 crop	det
4	crop	crop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 fungus	case
6	fungus	fungus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crop	nmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 grows	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	It	a crop of fungus					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crop=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It keeps real cows and milks them in the nest

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	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cows	amod
4	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keeps	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 milks	cc
6	milks	milk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 keeps	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 milks	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 nest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 nest	det
10	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 milks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	real cows					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme
2	milk	present		cows = cow		the nest			vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Source

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.

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