Test 11 · Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees, carpenter…

«stingless bees? so they just let anyone rob their honey» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: stingless bees, anyone · What happens: let, rob, be · To what, where: honey · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 305 «Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees, carpenter bees and stingless bees» 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	_	3 bees	punct
2	stingless	stingless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bees	amod
3	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 let	nsubj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 bees	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 let	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 let	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 let	advmod
8	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 rob	nsubj
10	rob	rob	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 honey	nmod:poss
12	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rob	obj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 true	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 true	cop
16	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 let	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	past	stingless bees			tree rules
2	rob in a quote	infinitive	anyone	bees's honey		vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent honey=Theme
3	is	present			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

Yes, and they give it away to bears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 give	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 give	cc
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 give	nsubj
5	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 give	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 give	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 bears	case
9	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give away	present	they	it	bears			away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to bear=Recipient

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

No, they bite and crowd around intruders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 bite	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bite	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bite	nsubj
4	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 crowd	cc
6	crowd	crowd	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bite	conj
7	around	around	ADP	_	8 intruders	case
8	intruders	intruder	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 crowd	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	they						vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	crowd	present	they not said here			intruders			vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme around intruder=Destination

Option 3

No, they spray hot liquid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 spray	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spray	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spray	nsubj
4	spray	spray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 liquid	amod
6	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spray	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spray	present	they	hot liquid					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent liquid=Theme

Option 4

Yes, they have no defence at all, so robbers take it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 defence	det
6	defence	defence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 defence	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 take	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 take	advmod
11	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 take	nsubj
12	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	they	no defence		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent defence=Patient
2	take	present	robbers	defence					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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