Test 5 · ★ · Bites, stings and things you find on the ground

Why must you never sit on an ant hill in Florida?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: not sit · To what, where: ant hill

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 238 «Bites, stings and things you find on the ground» of the everyday 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	5 sit	advmod
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sit	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 sit	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 sit	advmod
5	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 hill	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hill	det
8	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hill	compound
9	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sit	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Florida	case
11	Florida	Florida	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 hill	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sit	must	you			a ant hill in Florida			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location

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 · ← Mova's choice

Ants carry the flu

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carry	nsubj
2	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flu	det
4	flu	flu	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	Ants	the flu					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flu=Theme

Option 2

Ant hills are always full of snakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ant	ant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hills	amod
2	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 full	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 full	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 full	advmod
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 snakes	case
7	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Ant hills					of snakes; always, full property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Fire ants can sting many times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ants	compound
2	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sting	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sting	aux
4	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 times	amod
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sting	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sting	can	Fire ants				time		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

You might crush the queen ant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 crush	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 crush	aux
3	crush	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ant	det
5	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ant	compound
6	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crush	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crush	might	You	the queen ant					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ant=Patient

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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