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title: A termite nest and an ant nest. Which has a king? — Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and li… · tree and pragmatics
description: A termite nest and an ant nest. Which has a king? Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 238 «Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 10 · ★★ · Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges

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A termite nest and an ant nest. Which has a king?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** king

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 238 «Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges» 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/238-ants-colonies-queens-farmers-and-living-bridges/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A termite nest and an ant nest.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:238-ants-colonies-queens-farmers-and-living-bridges:t10:1
# text = A termite nest and an ant nest.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	termite	termite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* Which has a king?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:238-ants-colonies-queens-farmers-and-living-bridges:t10:2
# text = Which has a king?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  | a king |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Both of them have one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:238-ants-colonies-queens-farmers-and-living-bridges:t10:o1:1
# text = Both of them have one
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Both | one |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The ant nest, always

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:238-ants-colonies-queens-farmers-and-living-bridges:t10:o2:1
# text = The ant nest, always
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The termite nest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:238-ants-colonies-queens-farmers-and-living-bridges:t10:o3:1
# text = The termite nest
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	termite	termite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Neither of them has one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:238-ants-colonies-queens-farmers-and-living-bridges:t10:o4:1
# text = Neither of them has one
1	Neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Neither | one |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |

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**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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