Test 9 · ★ · The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scor…

What would happen if the leafcutters' fungus garden died?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fungus garden · What happens: happen, die

This is test 9 · ★ 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	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	_	10 died	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 leafcutters	det
6	leafcutters	leafcutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 garden	nmod:poss
7	'	's	PART	_	6 leafcutters	case
8	fungus	fungus	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 garden	compound
9	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 died	nsubj
10	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	?	?	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	die a condition, not said to happen	past	the leafcutters's fungus garden						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 ants would eat the leaves instead

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 eat	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 leaves	det
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would	the ants	the leaves				instead property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The queen would grow a new fungus from her wings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fungus	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fungus	amod
7	fungus	fungus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 wings	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wings	nmod:poss
10	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	the queen	a new fungus		queen's wings			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent fungus=Product from wing=Material

Option 3

Nothing, ants do not need food

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	6 need	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 need	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 need	advmod
6	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present · do-support	Nothing ants	food					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The colony would lose its food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 colony	det
2	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lose	aux
4	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 food	nmod:poss
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	the colony	colony's food					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Eventuality

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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