Test 8 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous

«bees die every time they sting» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bees · What happens: die, sting, be · To what, where: time · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 188 «Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous» 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	_	3 die	punct
2	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 die	nsubj
3	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 die	obl:unmarked
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sting	nsubj
7	sting	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 time	acl:relcl
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 die	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 right	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 right	cop
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 die	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 die	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	die in a quote	present	bees		time		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sting in a quote	present	bees = bee	every time not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus time=Experiencer
3	is	present				right property	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

Honeybees die after stinging people, but not after stinging insects

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Honeybees	honeybee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 die	nsubj
2	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	after	after	SCONJ	_	4 stinging	mark
4	stinging	sting	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 die	advcl
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stinging	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 insects	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 insects	cc
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 stinging	advmod
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 stinging	mark
10	stinging	sting	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 insects	amod
11	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 die	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	die	present	Honeybees	stinging insects	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	sting	gerund	Honeybees not said here	people	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer
3	not sting	gerund			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Bees never die from stinging

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 die	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 die	advmod
3	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 stinging	mark
5	stinging	sting	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 die	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not die	present	Bees						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	sting	gerund	Bees not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Only wasps die after stinging; bees can sting people again and again

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 sting	punct
7	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sting	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 sting	aux
9	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 die	parataxis
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sting	obj
11	again	again	ADV	_	9 sting	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 again	cc
13	again	again	ADV	_	11 again	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	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	sting	can	bees	people	again	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer

Option 4

Right, every time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 time	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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