Test 9 · ★ · Bees and wasps in the garden

«bee's doing a weird wiggly dance on the comb lol» What is it doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bee · What happens: do · To what, where: weird wiggly dance, comb

This is test 9 · ★ 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 doing	punct
2	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 doing	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 doing	aux
4	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dance	det
6	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dance	amod
7	wiggly	wiggly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dance	amod
8	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 doing	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 comb	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 comb	det
11	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 doing	obl
12	lol	lol	INTJ	_	17 doing	discourse
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 lol	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 doing	obj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 doing	aux
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 doing	nsubj
17	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 doing	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	present · progressive	bee	a weird wiggly dance		the comb			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Eventuality
2	do	present · progressive	bee						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Telling the others where the flowers are

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 where	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 others	det
3	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Telling	obj
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flowers	det
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 where	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 where	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund		the others					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent other=Recipient
2	is	present	the flowers					where property	tree rules

Option 2

Warming up before it goes to sleep for the night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warming	warm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 goes	csubj
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Warming	compound:prt
3	before	before	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Warming	obl
5	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sleep	mark
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 goes	advcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 night	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	warm up	gerund		before it	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	go	present	Warming		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sleep	to-infinitive	Warming not said here	night	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Trying to scare the queen out of the hive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 scare	mark
3	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Trying	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 queen	det
5	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scare	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 hive	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 hive	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hive	det
9	hive	hive	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scare	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	gerund							vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	scare not said to happen	to-infinitive		the queen		the hive			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus queen=Experiencer

Option 4

Getting rid of fleas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Getting	xcomp
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 fleas	case
4	fleas	flea	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	gerund						rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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