Test 10 · ★ · Bees and wasps in the garden

What would happen if a farmer sprayed a field of flowers with a strong bug poison?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: farmer · What happens: happen, spray · To what, where: field

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 218 «Bees and wasps in the garden» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 sprayed	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 farmer	det
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sprayed	nsubj
7	sprayed	spray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 field	det
9	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sprayed	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 flowers	case
11	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 field	nmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	16 poison	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 poison	det
14	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 poison	amod
15	bug	bug	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 poison	compound
16	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sprayed	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spray a condition, not said to happen	past	a farmer	a field of flowers				with a strong bug poison	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent field=Destination with poison=Theme

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

Bees would make more honey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 honey	amod
5	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	Bees	more honey					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Bees visiting the flowers could get ill and die

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	nsubj
2	visiting	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Bees	acl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flowers	det
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 visiting	obj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 die	cc
9	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 get	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	visit	gerund	Bees not said here	the flowers		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Co-Agent
2	get	could	Bees		ill property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	die	present	Bees not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

Nothing, because bug poison only hurts the bugs that eat crops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 hurts	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 poison	punct
3	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	5 poison	case
4	bug	bug	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poison	compound
5	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	appos
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 hurts	advmod
7	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bugs	det
9	bugs	bug	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hurts	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 eat	nsubj
11	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 bugs	acl:relcl
12	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	present	Nothing	the bugs					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bug=Patient
2	eat	present	the bugs	crops					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Patient

Option 4

Bees would grow bigger stings to fight back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 stings	amod
5	stings	sting	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fight	mark
7	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 grow	advcl
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 fight	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	Bees	bigger stings					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sting=Theme
2	fight back	to-infinitive	Bees not said here						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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