Test 9 · ★★★ · More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows…

«every bee dies when it stings, so they only sting when they're really scared» What is the best correction?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bee, they, best correction · What happens: die, sting, be

This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 154 «More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 dies	punct
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 bee	det
3	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dies	nsubj
4	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 stings	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stings	nsubj
7	stings	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dies	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sting	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 sting	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sting	nsubj
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 sting	advmod
12	sting	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dies	conj
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 scared	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 scared	nsubj
15	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 scared	cop
16	really	really	ADV	_	17 scared	advmod
17	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sting	advcl
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 scared	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 scared	ccomp
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 What	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 correction	det
22	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 correction	amod
23	correction	correction	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 What	nsubj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	die in a quote	present	every bee		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	sting in a quote	present	bee		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
3	sting in a quote	present	they		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	is in a quote	present	they	scared property	tree rules
5	is a	present	the best correction		tree rules

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Only honeybee workers usually die; bumblebees and wasps can sting again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 workers	advmod
2	honeybee	honeybee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 workers	compound
3	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 die	nsubj
4	usually	usually	ADV	_	5 die	advmod
5	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 sting	punct
7	bumblebees	bumblebee	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sting	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wasps	cc
9	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bumblebees	conj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 sting	aux
11	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 die	conj
12	again	again	ADV	_	11 sting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	honeybee workers					usually property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	sting	can	bumblebees and wasps				again		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

No bee ever dies after stinging

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 bee	det
2	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dies	nsubj
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 dies	advmod
4	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 stinging	mark
6	stinging	sting	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 dies	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	no bee				ever		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	sting	gerund	no bee not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Only wasps die after stinging, because they leave their whole sting behind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 wasps	advmod
2	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 die	nsubj
3	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	after	after	SCONJ	_	5 stinging	mark
5	stinging	sting	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 die	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 leave	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 leave	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 leave	nsubj
9	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 die	conj
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sting	nmod:poss
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sting	amod
12	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leave	obj
13	behind	behind	ADV	_	9 leave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	die	present	wasps			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	sting	gerund	wasps not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	leave	present	wasps = wasp	wasps's whole sting	behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sting=Theme
4	sting		wasps = wasp			nom sting «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Correct for all bees and wasps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 bees	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 bees	det
4	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Correct	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wasps	cc
6	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bees	conj

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

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