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title: Identify the reason for which ants enter kitchens. — Chickens, goats and little creatures · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the reason for which ants enter kitchens. Exam question 2 of lesson 68 «Chickens, goats and little creatures» 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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# Exam question 2 · Chickens, goats and little creatures

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Identify the reason for which ants enter kitchens.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, ants · **What happens:** identify, enter · **To what, where:** reason, kitchens

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 68 «Chickens, goats and little creatures» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures:e2:1
# text = Identify the reason for which ants enter kitchens.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
6	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	enter	enter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	kitchens	kitchen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the reason |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme |
| 2 | **enter** | present | ants | kitchens |  |  |  | for the reason | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kitchen=Destination |

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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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In search of cold water only, as ants require no food in houses whatsoever

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures:e2:o1:1
# text = In search of cold water only, as ants require no food in houses whatsoever
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	require	require	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **require** | present | ants | no food |  | search of cold water |  | in houses; whatsoever *property* | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme food=Precondition |
| 2 | **search** |  |  | cold water |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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In search of food, wherefore crumbs and sticky spills should be cleaned

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures:e2:o2:1
# text = In search of food, wherefore crumbs and sticky spills should be cleaned
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
7	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	spills	spill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	cleaned	clean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clean** | should · passive |  | crumbs and sticky spills |  |  |  | wherefore *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **search** |  |  | food |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Because they are attracted to light

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures:e2:o3:1
# text = Because they are attracted to light
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	attracted	attract	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attract** | present · passive |  | they |  |  |  | to light *result* | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to light=Result |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Because they dislike the outdoors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures:e2:o4:1
# text = Because they dislike the outdoors
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dislike	dislike	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	outdoors	outdoor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dislike** | present | they | the outdoors |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer outdoor=Stimulus |

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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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