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title: How is a leafcutter ant colony like a farm? — The insect house: ants, stick insects,… · tree and pragmatics
description: How is a leafcutter ant colony like a farm? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 97 «The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions» 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 8 · ★ · The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scor…

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How is a leafcutter ant colony like a farm?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ant colony · **What happens:** be

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 97 «The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions» 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/97-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:97-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions:t8:1
# text = How is a leafcutter ant colony like a farm?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	leafcutter	leafcutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a ant colony like a farm |  |  |  |  | how *property* | tree rules |

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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 -->
It plants trees in rows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:97-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions:t8:o1:1
# text = It plants trees in rows
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	_
3	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It sells food to other ants

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:97-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions:t8:o2:1
# text = It sells food to other ants
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sells	sell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | present | It | food | other ants |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent food=Theme to ant=Recipient |

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

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It grows a crop of fungus to eat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:97-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions:t8:o3:1
# text = It grows a crop of fungus to eat
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grows	grow	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	crop	crop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fungus	fungus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | It | a crop of fungus |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crop=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It keeps real cows and milks them in the nest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:97-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions:t8:o4:1
# text = It keeps real cows and milks them in the nest
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	milks	milk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | It | real cows |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme |
| 2 | **milk** | present |  | cows *= cow* |  | the nest |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Source |

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