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description: «got ants from the shop, no queen, they'll be fine» What will happen? Test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 330 «Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 6 · ★★★ · Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and h…

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«got ants from the shop, no queen, they'll be fine» What will happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ants · **What happens:** get, be, happen · **To what, where:** ants, shop · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 330 «Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs» 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/330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs:t6:1
# text = «got ants from the shop, no queen, they'll be fine» What will happen?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | past |  | ants and no queen |  | the shop |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | future | ants *= ant* |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **happen** | future |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They will choose a new queen from a worker in a day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs:t6:o1:1
# text = They will choose a new queen from a worker in a day
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	worker	worker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | future | They | a new queen |  | a worker | day |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent queen=Theme from worker=Source |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Without a queen laying eggs, the colony will die out in a few months

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs:t6:o2:1
# text = Without a queen laying eggs, the colony will die out in a few months
1	Without	without	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	laying	lay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | gerund | a queen *not said here* | eggs |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result |
| 2 | **die out** | future | the colony |  |  |  | month | without a queen | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They will live for ever without one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs:t6:o3:1
# text = They will live for ever without one
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
6	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | future | They |  |  |  |  | without one | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The biggest ant will lay all the eggs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs:t6:o4:1
# text = The biggest ant will lay all the eggs
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | future | the biggest ant | all eggs |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result |

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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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