Test 1 · ★★★ · Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food

«bees are all dying, honey's gonna run out» What is more accurate?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: bees, honey · What happens: die, run out, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 291 «Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food» 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	_	5 dying	punct
2	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dying	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dying	aux
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 dying	advmod
5	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 accurate	csubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 run	punct
7	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 run	nsubj
8	's	's	PART	_	7 honey	case
9	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	10 run	dep
10	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 dying	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 run	compound:prt
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 dying	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 accurate	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 accurate	cop
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 accurate	advmod
16	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 accurate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	die in a quote	present · progressive	bees	all property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	run out in a quote	infinitive	honey		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present		accurate 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

No bees are in trouble at all, it's all made up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 bees	det
2	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 trouble	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 trouble	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 trouble	case
5	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 trouble	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 made	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 made	nsubj:pass
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 made	aux:pass
11	all	all	ADV	_	12 made	advmod
12	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 trouble	parataxis
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 made	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	no bees			trouble		at all	tree rules
2	make up	present · passive		trouble				all property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot

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

Honeybees are kept by beekeepers, but many wild bees are declining

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Honeybees	honeybee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kept	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	aux:pass
3	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 beekeepers	case
5	beekeepers	beekeeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kept	obl:agent
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 declining	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 declining	cc
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bees	amod
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bees	amod
10	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 declining	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 declining	aux
12	declining	decline	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 kept	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present · passive	beekeepers	Honeybees					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	decline	present · progressive	many wild bees						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

Every kind of bee will be gone next year, so honey will run out then

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 bee	case
4	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 gone	aux:pass
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 year	amod
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 run	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 run	advmod
12	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 run	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 run	aux
14	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 gone	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 run	compound:prt
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	future · passive		every kind of bee			year		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	run out	future	honey				then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Honey comes from wasps now, not bees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 wasps	case
4	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 comes	obl
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 comes	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bees	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 bees	advmod
8	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Honey	bees		wasps	now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wasp=Initial_Location

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