Test 8 · ★ · Bees and wasps in the garden
A tiny bee goes into a hole in a garden wall and never meets any other bee. What kind is it most likely?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: tiny bee · What happens: go, not meet, be · To what, where: hole, other bee, kind
This is test 8 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A tiny bee goes into a hole in a garden wall and never meets any other bee.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bee | det |
| 2 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bee | amod |
| 3 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 hole | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hole | det |
| 7 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 wall | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 wall | det |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wall | compound |
| 11 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hole | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 meets | cc |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 meets | advmod |
| 14 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 goes | conj |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 bee | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bee | amod |
| 17 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 meets | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | a tiny bee | a hole in a garden wall | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hole=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | not meet | present | a tiny bee not said here | any other bee | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bee=Co-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.
Sentence 2: What kind is it most likely?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 kind | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 it | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kind | nsubj |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 likely | advmod |
| 6 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 2 kind | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 kind | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | kind | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
A queen honeybee in hiding
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 honeybee | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 honeybee | compound |
| 3 | honeybee | honeybee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 hiding | case |
| 5 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 honeybee | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A honeybee that got lost
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 honeybee | det |
| 2 | honeybee | honeybee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lost | aux:pass |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 honeybee | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · passive | a honeybee | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A solitary bee laying its eggs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bee | det |
| 2 | solitary | solitary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bee | amod |
| 3 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | laying | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 bee | acl |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 laying | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | gerund | a solitary bee not said here | bee's eggs | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result |
Option 4
A bee that is too ill to fly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bee | det |
| 2 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 ill | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ill | cop |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 ill | advmod |
| 6 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bee | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 fly | mark |
| 8 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ill | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a bee | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly | to-infinitive | a bee not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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