Exam question 1 · Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey
Identify the information conveyed by the waggle dance of the honeybee.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, convey, dance · To what, where: information, honeybee
This is exam question 1 of lesson 239 «Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 information | det |
| 3 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | conveyed | convey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 information | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 dance | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dance | det |
| 7 | waggle | waggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dance | compound |
| 8 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 conveyed | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 honeybee | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 honeybee | det |
| 11 | honeybee | honeybee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dance | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the information | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent information=Theme | ||||
| 2 | convey | participle | the information not said here | by the waggle dance of the honeybee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | dance | the honeybee | nom dance «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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 number of drones in the hive
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 number | det |
| 2 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 drones | case |
| 4 | drones | drone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 number | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 hive | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hive | det |
| 7 | hive | hive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drones | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The approach of inclement weather
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 approach | det |
| 2 | approach | approach | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 weather | case |
| 4 | inclement | inclement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 weather | compound |
| 5 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 approach | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | inclement weather | nom approach «act intransitive»: of=agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The direction and distance of a source of food
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 direction | det |
| 2 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 distance | cc |
| 4 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 direction | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 source | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 source | det |
| 7 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 direction | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 food | case |
| 9 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 source | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The age of the queen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 age | det |
| 2 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 queen | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 queen | det |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 age | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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