Exam question 4 · Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the honeybee's sting.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts, honeybee · What happens: select, establish, concern, sting · To what, where: response, sting
This is exam question 4 of lesson 188 «Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous» of the biology 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.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Select | select | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 response | det |
| 3 | response | response | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Select | obj |
| 4 | consistent | consistent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Select | xcomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 facts | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 facts | det |
| 7 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 facts | amod |
| 8 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 consistent | obl |
| 9 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 facts | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 honeybee | det |
| 11 | honeybee | honeybee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sting | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 honeybee | case |
| 13 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 concerning | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Select | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | select | imperative | you not said here | the response | consistent property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme | |||
| 2 | establish | participle | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 3 | concern | gerund | the established facts not said here | the honeybee's sting | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sting=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | sting | the honeybee | nom sting «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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 bee perishes after stinging any creature whatsoever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bee | det |
| 2 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 perishes | nsubj |
| 3 | perishes | perish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 stinging | mark |
| 5 | stinging | sting | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 perishes | advcl |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 creature | det |
| 7 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stinging | obj |
| 8 | whatsoever | whatsoever | ADV | _ | 5 stinging | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perish | present | the bee | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | sting | gerund | the bee not said here | any creature | whatsoever property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus creature=Experiencer |
Option 2
The bee possesses no stinger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bee | det |
| 2 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 possesses | nsubj |
| 3 | possesses | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 stinger | det |
| 5 | stinger | stinger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 possesses | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | possess | present | the bee | no stinger | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot stinger=Theme |
Option 3
The bee never perishes after stinging
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bee | det |
| 2 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 perishes | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 perishes | advmod |
| 4 | perishes | perish | 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 perishes | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not perish | present | the bee | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | sting | gerund | the bee not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The bee perishes after stinging a person, its barbed stinger becoming lodged in the skin
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bee | det |
| 2 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 perishes | nsubj |
| 3 | perishes | perish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 stinging | mark |
| 5 | stinging | sting | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 perishes | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 person | det |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stinging | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lodged | punct |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 stinger | nmod:poss |
| 10 | barbed | barbed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stinger | amod |
| 11 | stinger | stinger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lodged | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 lodged | aux:pass |
| 13 | lodged | lodge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 perishes | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 skin | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 skin | det |
| 16 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lodged | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perish | present | the bee | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | sting | gerund | the bee not said here | a person | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus person=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | lodge | gerund · passive | bee's barbed stinger | the skin | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in skin=Location |
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