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title: A boy in Queensland wants to sit down on a sandy mound covered with… — Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, bl… · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Queensland wants to sit down on a sandy mound covered with small red ants. What should he do? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 326 «Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics
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# Test 7 · ★ · Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, f…

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A boy in Queensland wants to sit down on a sandy mound covered with small red ants. What should he do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** want, sit down, cover, do · **To what, where:** sandy mound

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 326 «Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, 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/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A boy in Queensland wants to sit down on a sandy mound covered with small red ants.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants:t7:1
# text = A boy in Queensland wants to sit down on a sandy mound covered with small red ants.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Queensland	Queensland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | a boy in Queensland |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **sit down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a boy in Queensland *not said here* |  |  | a sandy mound |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mound=Location |
| 3 | **cover** | participle |  | a sandy mound *not said here* |  |  |  | with small red ants | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with ant=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What should he do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants:t7:2
# text = What should he do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | should | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Stamp on the mound to flatten it first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants:t7:o1:1
# text = Stamp on the mound to flatten it first
1	Stamp	stamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	flatten	flatten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flatten** | to-infinitive |  | mound |  |  |  | first *property* | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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

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Find another spot away from the ant hill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants:t7:o2:1
# text = Find another spot away from the ant hill
1	Find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | imperative | you *not said here* | another spot |  |  |  | away *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sit down very carefully and slowly, so the ants do not notice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants:t7:o3:1
# text = Sit down very carefully and slowly, so the ants do not notice
1	Sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	down	down	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **notice** | present · do-support | the ants |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Brush the ants off and then sit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants:t7:o4:1
# text = Brush the ants off and then sit
1	Brush	brush	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brush off** | imperative | you *not said here* | the ants |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ant=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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