Test 2 · ★★ · Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey

«science says bumblebees can't fly, it's a miracle» What is the truth?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: science, bumblebees · What happens: say, not fly, be · To what, where: miracle, truth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 239 «Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey» 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	_	3 says	punct
2	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bumblebees	bumblebee	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fly	nsubj
5	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fly	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 fly	advmod
7	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 miracle	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 miracle	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 miracle	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 miracle	det
12	miracle	miracle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fly	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 miracle	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 truth	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 truth	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 truth	det
17	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fly	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	science		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not fly in a quote	can	bumblebees		tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	science	a miracle	tree rules
4	is a	present		the truth	tree rules

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

They are pushed by other bees

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 pushed	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pushed	aux:pass
3	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 bees	case
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bees	amod
6	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pushed	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	present · passive	other bees	They					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

That old claim came from a wrong simple calculation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 claim	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 claim	amod
3	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	9 calculation	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 calculation	det
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 calculation	amod
8	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 calculation	amod
9	calculation	calculation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	that old claim			a wrong simple calculation			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from calculation=Initial_Location

Option 3

They fly only downhill, never up

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	2 fly	nsubj
2	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 downhill	advmod
4	downhill	downhill	ADV	_	2 fly	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 up	punct
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 up	advmod
7	up	up	ADV	_	2 fly	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly up	present	They					downhill property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It is true, they float along on a kind of magic nobody can explain

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 float	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 float	nsubj
6	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	parataxis
7	along	along	ADV	_	6 float	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 kind	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 kind	det
10	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 float	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 nobody	case
12	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 nobody	amod
13	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 kind	nmod
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 explain	aux
15	explain	explain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 true	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		true property	tree rules
2	float	present	they	a kind of nobody	along property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on kind=Trajectory
3	explain speech: assert	can				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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