Test 4 · ★ · Bees and wasps in the garden

What would happen to bees in spring if every dandelion and early flower were cut down?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, cut down · To what, where: dandelion

This is test 4 · ★ 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	to	to	ADP	_	5 bees	case
5	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 spring	case
7	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 cut	mark
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 dandelion	det
10	dandelion	dandelion	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cut	nsubj:pass
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 flower	cc
12	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 flower	amod
13	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dandelion	conj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cut	aux:pass
15	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 cut	compound:prt
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					spring	to bees	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cut down a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		every dandelion and early flower					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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

Nothing, because bees never visit early flowers in spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 visit	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 visit	mark
4	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 visit	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 visit	advmod
6	visit	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	acl:relcl
7	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 flowers	amod
8	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 visit	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 spring	case
10	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 visit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not visit	present	bees	early flowers			spring		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They would have much less food when they need it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 less	advmod
5	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 food	amod
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 need	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 need	nsubj
9	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	They	less food					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
2	need	present	they	food					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 3

They would eat the grass instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 eat	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	aux
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grass	det
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would	They	the grass				instead property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They would make more honey than ever before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	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
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 ever	case
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 make	obl
8	before	before	ADV	_	3 make	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	They	more honey				before property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset honey=Product

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