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title: A man stung by a bullet ant says it felt like being shot. What is tr… — The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters,… · tree and pragmatics
description: A man stung by a bullet ant says it felt like being shot. What is true? Test 8 of lesson 157 «The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 8 · The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, j…

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A man stung by a bullet ant says it felt like being shot. What is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** man, it · **What happens:** sting, say, feel, shoot, be · **To what, where:** man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 of lesson 157 «The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/157-the-amazon-forest-floor/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A man stung by a bullet ant says it felt like being shot.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:157-the-amazon-forest-floor:t8:1
# text = A man stung by a bullet ant says it felt like being shot.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	stung	sting	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	bullet	bullet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	_
8	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
11	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	shot	shoot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sting** | participle |  | a man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **feel** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **shoot** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP» |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:157-the-amazon-forest-floor:t8:2
# text = What is true?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Bullet ants shoot real bullets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:157-the-amazon-forest-floor:t8:o1:1
# text = Bullet ants shoot real bullets
1	Bullet	bullet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shoot	shoot	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bullets	bullet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot** | present | Bullet ants | real bullets |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bullet=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Its sting is one of the most painful known, and the pain lasts hours

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:157-the-amazon-forest-floor:t8:o2:1
# text = Its sting is one of the most painful known, and the pain lasts hours
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	8	advmod	_	_
8	painful	painful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nmod	_	_
9	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Its sting | one |  |  |  | of the painful | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | participle | Its sting *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **last** | present | the pain |  |  |  | hour |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sting** |  | Its *= it* |  |  |  |  |  | nom sting «state transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He is joking, it just feels like a tiny mosquito bite that is gone in a minute

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:157-the-amazon-forest-floor:t8:o3:1
# text = He is joking, it just feels like a tiny mosquito bite that is gone in a minute
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	joking	joke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	mosquito	mosquito	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **joke** *speech: other* | present · progressive | He |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **feel** | present | it |  |  |  |  | like a tiny mosquito bite | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like bite=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  | minute | gone *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Bullet ants cannot sting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:157-the-amazon-forest-floor:t8:o4:1
# text = Bullet ants cannot sting
1	Bullet	bullet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	sting	sting	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **sting** | can | Bullet ants |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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