Test 4 · ★★ · Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey

«bee stung me and the sting's still in, gross» What should he do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: bee, sting · What happens: sting, do · To what, where: me

This is test 4 · ★★ 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 stung	punct
2	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stung	nsubj
3	stung	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 stung	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 in	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sting	det
7	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 in	nsubj
8	's	's	PART	_	7 sting	case
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 in	advmod
10	in	in	ADV	_	3 stung	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gross	punct
12	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stung	conj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 stung	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 do	obj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 do	aux
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 do	nsubj
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stung	ccomp
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 stung	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sting in a quote	past	bee	me					tree rules
2	do	should	sting						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

Leave it, it will fly away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fly	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fly	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fly	aux
6	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Leave	conj
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	fly away	future	it					away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Scrape it out quickly, as it keeps pumping venom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scrape	scrape	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Scrape	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Scrape	compound:prt
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Scrape	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 keeps	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 keeps	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 keeps	nsubj
8	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Scrape	conj
9	pumping	pump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 keeps	xcomp
10	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pumping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	scrape out	imperative	you not said here	it	quickly property	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	keep	present	it			tree rules
3	pump	gerund		venom		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent venom=Theme

Option 3

Squeeze it hard between two fingers for a minute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squeeze	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Squeeze	obj
3	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Squeeze	advmod
4	between	between	ADP	_	6 fingers	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 fingers	nummod
6	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Squeeze	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 minute	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 minute	det
9	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Squeeze	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	imperative	you not said here	it		two fingers	minute	hard property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme between finger=Destination

Option 4

Push it in deeper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Push	push	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Push	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 deeper	case
4	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Push	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	imperative	you not said here	it		deeper			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme in deep=Trajectory

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