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title: What would happen if leafcutter ants lost their fungus garden? — Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and li… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if leafcutter ants lost their fungus garden? Test 5 · ★★ 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 5 · ★★ · Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges

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What would happen if leafcutter ants lost their fungus garden?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** leafcutter ants · **What happens:** happen, lose · **To what, where:** fungus garden

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This is test 5 · ★★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:238-ants-colonies-queens-farmers-and-living-bridges:t5:1
# text = What would happen if leafcutter ants lost their fungus garden?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	leafcutter	leafcutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	fungus	fungus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | leafcutter ants | ants's fungus garden |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Eventuality |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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They would farm aphids instead at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:238-ants-colonies-queens-farmers-and-living-bridges:t5:o1:1
# text = They would farm aphids instead at once
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	farm	farm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	aphids	aphid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **farm** | would | They | aphids |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aphid=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Nothing, they eat the leaves anyway

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:238-ants-colonies-queens-farmers-and-living-bridges:t5:o2:1
# text = Nothing, they eat the leaves anyway
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | they | the leaves |  |  |  | Nothing *vocative*; anyway *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient |

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

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They would lose their food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:238-ants-colonies-queens-farmers-and-living-bridges:t5:o3:1
# text = They would lose their food
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | would | They | their food |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They would grow wings and fly off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:238-ants-colonies-queens-farmers-and-living-bridges:t5:o4:1
# text = They would grow wings and fly off
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | They | wings |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme |
| 2 | **fly off** | infinitive | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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