Test 6 · ★★★ · Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food
In a cartoon a happy bee makes honey from a flower in one minute and fills a jar. What is real?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: happy bee · What happens: make, fill, be · To what, where: honey, cartoon, jar
This is test 6 · ★★★ 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
Sentence 1: In a cartoon a happy bee makes honey from a flower in one minute and fills a jar.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 makes | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bee | det |
| 5 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bee | amod |
| 6 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 makes | nsubj |
| 7 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 makes | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 flower | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 flower | det |
| 11 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 makes | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 minute | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 minute | nummod |
| 14 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 makes | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fills | cc |
| 16 | fills | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 makes | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 jar | det |
| 18 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fills | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 makes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | a happy bee | honey | a cartoon | minute | from a flower | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent honey=Product from flower=Material | |
| 2 | fill | present | a happy bee not said here | a jar | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent jar=Patient |
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: What is real?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 real | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 real | cop |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 real | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | real property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Bees buy their honey from people
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 buy | nsubj |
| 2 | buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 honey | nmod:poss |
| 4 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 buy | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 people | case |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 buy | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | present | Bees | Bees's honey | from people | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent honey=Theme from people=Source |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Bees make honey by chewing up green leaves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 make | nsubj |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 make | obj |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 chewing | mark |
| 5 | chewing | chew | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 make | advcl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 chewing | compound:prt |
| 7 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 leaves | amod |
| 8 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 chewing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Bees | honey | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Product | ||||
| 2 | chew up | gerund | Bees not said here | green leaves | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient |
Option 3
One bee really can fill a whole jar in a minute
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 bee | nummod |
| 2 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fill | nsubj |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 fill | advmod |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fill | aux |
| 5 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 jar | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 jar | amod |
| 8 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fill | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 minute | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 minute | det |
| 11 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fill | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | can | One bee | a whole jar | minute | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent jar=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Honey takes many bees many flights and weeks of work
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | nsubj |
| 2 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bees | amod |
| 4 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 takes | obj |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 flights | amod |
| 6 | flights | flight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 takes | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 weeks | cc |
| 8 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 flights | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 work | case |
| 10 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 weeks | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Honey | many bees | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bee=Theme flight=Destination |
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