Test 5 · ★★ · Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey

What would happen if a hive had no flowers to visit all summer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hive, flowers · What happens: happen, have, visit · To what, where: flowers

This is test 5 · ★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hive	det
6	hive	hive	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 flowers	det
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 visit	mark
11	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 had	xcomp
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 summer	det
13	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 visit	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	a hive	no flowers		tree rules
3	visit	to-infinitive	no flowers not said here		summer	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

Nothing, bees eat leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 eat	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	bees	leaves				Nothing vocative	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It would make its honey from rain water

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 make	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 honey	nmod:poss
5	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 water	compound
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	It	its honey		rain water			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset honey=Product from water=Material

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It would have no honey to eat in winter

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 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 honey	det
5	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 eat	mark
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 honey	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 winter	case
9	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	It	no honey					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Patient
2	eat	to-infinitive		no honey not said here			winter		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The bees would hibernate in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bees	det
2	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hibernate	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hibernate	aux
4	hibernate	hibernate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 summer	case
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hibernate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hibernate	would	the bees				summer		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location

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