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Test 9 · Insects and spiders

An ant colony has thousands of ants but only one of them lays eggs. Which one?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ant colony, one · What happens: have, lay · To what, where: thousands, eggs

This is test 9 of lesson 72 «Insects and spiders» of the world 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: An ant colony has thousands of ants but only one of them lays eggs.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 colony	det
2	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 colony	compound
3	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 ants	case
7	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thousands	nmod
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 lays	cc
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 one	advmod
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 lays	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 one	nmod
13	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	conj
14	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lays	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a ant colony	thousands of ants					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient
2	lay	present	one of ants	eggs					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

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: Which one?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 one	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The youngest worker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 worker	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 worker	amod
3	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The queen

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	root	root

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

Option 3

Every ant in turn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 ant	det
2	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 turn	case
4	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ant	nmod

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

Option 4

The biggest soldier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soldier	det
2	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 soldier	amod
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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