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Test 6 · ★★ · Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants…

A girl in Brisbane sees ants swarming out of a mound. Why should she step away?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, ants · What happens: see, swarm, step away · To what, where: ants, mound

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 301 «Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» 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

Sentence 1: A girl in Brisbane sees ants swarming out of a mound.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sees	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Brisbane	case
4	Brisbane	Brisbane	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sees	obj
7	swarming	swarm	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 ants	acl
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 mound	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 mound	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 mound	det
11	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swarming	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sees	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	a girl in Brisbane	ants					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ant=Stimulus
2	swarm	gerund	ants not said here			a mound			vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out mound=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.

Sentence 2: Why should she step away?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 step	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 step	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 step	nsubj
4	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 step	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 step	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	step away	should	girl					away property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Ants only want to be friends and say hello

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 want	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 want	advmod
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 friends	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 friends	cop
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 want	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 say	cc
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	conj
9	hello	hello	INTJ	_	8 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	Ants						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ants not said here	friends					tree rules
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	Ants not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic

Option 2

Ants spray water at people who come close

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spray	nsubj
2	spray	spray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spray	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 people	case
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spray	obl
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 come	nsubj
7	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 people	acl:relcl
8	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spray	present	Ants	water				at people	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent water=Theme at people=Destination
2	come	present	people					close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ 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

The mound might be a tiny volcano

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mound	det
2	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 volcano	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 volcano	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 volcano	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 volcano	det
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 volcano	amod
7	volcano	volcano	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	might	the mound	a tiny volcano					tree rules

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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