Test 7 · ★★ · Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey
A worker bee waggles straight up on the comb. Which way are the flowers?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: worker bee, way · What happens: waggle, be · To what, where: comb, flowers
This is test 7 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: A worker bee waggles straight up on the comb.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bee | det |
| 2 | worker | worker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bee | compound |
| 3 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waggles | nsubj |
| 4 | waggles | waggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 6 up | advmod |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 waggles | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 comb | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 comb | det |
| 9 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waggles | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 waggles | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | waggle | present | a worker bee | the comb | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «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.
Sentence 2: Which way are the flowers?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flowers | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 flowers | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 flowers | det |
| 5 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 flowers | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | which way | the flowers | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Away from the sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Away | away | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 sun | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sun | det |
| 4 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Away | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Straight down into the ground
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Straight | straight | ADV | _ | 2 down | advmod |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 ground | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ground | det |
| 5 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 down | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Towards the sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Towards | towards | ADP | _ | 3 sun | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Wherever the wind blows
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 blows | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wind | det |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blows | nsubj |
| 4 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | present | the wind | wherever property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
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