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title: Why must you never sit on an ant hill in Florida? — Bites, stings and things you find on t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why must you never sit on an ant hill in Florida? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 238 «Bites, stings and things you find on the ground» of the everyday 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 · ★ · Bites, stings and things you find on the ground

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Why must you never sit on an ant hill in Florida?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not sit · **To what, where:** ant hill

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 238 «Bites, stings and things you find on the ground» of the everyday 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/everyday/238-bites-and-things-you-find/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:238-bites-and-things-you-find:t5:1
# text = Why must you never sit on an ant hill in Florida?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Florida	Florida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **sit** | must | you |  |  | a ant hill in Florida |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Ants carry the flu

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:238-bites-and-things-you-find:t5:o1:1
# text = Ants carry the flu
1	Ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	flu	flu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | present | Ants | the flu |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flu=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Ant hills are always full of snakes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:238-bites-and-things-you-find:t5:o2:1
# text = Ant hills are always full of snakes
1	Ant	ant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Ant hills |  |  |  |  | of snakes; always, full *property* | tree rules |

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

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Fire ants can sting many times

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:238-bites-and-things-you-find:t5:o3:1
# text = Fire ants can sting many times
1	Fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sting	sting	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sting** | can | Fire ants |  |  |  | time |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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You might crush the queen ant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:238-bites-and-things-you-find:t5:o4:1
# text = You might crush the queen ant
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	crush	crush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crush** | might | You | the queen ant |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ant=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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