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title: A girl in Brisbane sees ants swarming out of a mound. Why should she… — Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thor… · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Brisbane sees ants swarming out of a mound. Why should she step away? Test 6 · ★★ of lesson 301 «Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Test 6 · ★★ · Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants…

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A girl in Brisbane sees ants swarming out of a mound. Why should she step away?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** girl, ants · **What happens:** see, swarm, step away · **To what, where:** ants, mound

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 301 «Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» 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/301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A girl in Brisbane sees ants swarming out of a mound.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings:t6:1
# text = A girl in Brisbane sees ants swarming out of a mound.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Brisbane	Brisbane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	swarming	swarm	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | a girl in Brisbane | ants |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ant=Stimulus |
| 2 | **swarm** | gerund | ants *not said here* |  |  | a mound |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out mound=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Why should she step away?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings:t6:2
# text = Why should she step away?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	step	step	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step away** | should | girl |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Ants only want to be friends and say hello

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings:t6:o1:1
# text = Ants only want to be friends and say hello
1	Ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	hello	hello	INTJ	UH	_	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | Ants |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is a** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Ants *not said here* | friends |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Ants *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Ants spray water at people who come close

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings:t6:o2:1
# text = Ants spray water at people who come close
1	Ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spray	spray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spray** | present | Ants | water |  |  |  | at people | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent water=Theme at people=Destination |
| 2 | **come** | present | people |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Fire ants can sting many times

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings:t6: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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The mound might be a tiny volcano

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings:t6:o4:1
# text = The mound might be a tiny volcano
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	volcano	volcano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | might | the mound | a tiny volcano |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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