Test 9 · ★★ · Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey

«the fat one in the middle is the boss and gives orders» What is really true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fat one, boss · What happens: be, give · To what, where: boss, orders

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	_	10 boss	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 one	det
3	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	amod
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boss	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 middle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 middle	det
7	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 one	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 boss	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boss	det
10	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 true	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gives	cc
12	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 boss	conj
13	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 gives	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 boss	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 true	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 true	cop
17	really	really	ADV	_	18 true	advmod
18	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	the fat one in the middle	the boss		tree rules
2	give in a quote	present	the fat one in the middle not said here	orders		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
3	is	present	the boss		true property	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The queen lays the eggs; she does not give orders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lays	nsubj
3	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 eggs	det
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lays	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 give	nsubj
8	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 give	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 give	advmod
10	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lays	parataxis
11	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	the queen	the eggs					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
2	not give	present · do-support	queen	orders					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme

Option 2

The queen tells each bee its job every morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	nsubj
3	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 bee	det
5	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	obj
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 job	nmod:poss
7	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	obj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 morning	det
9	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the queen	bee's job	each bee		morning		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent bee=Recipient job=Topic
2	job		bee						nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

The queen is a male

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 male	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 male	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 male	det
5	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the queen	a male					tree rules

Option 4

The queen fetches all the food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fetches	nsubj
3	fetches	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 food	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 food	det
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fetches	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	present	the queen	all food					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme

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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