Test 5 · Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees, carpenter…
In Bee Movie, the hero is a male bee who could sting people. What is true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: hero, male bee · What happens: be, sting · To what, where: male bee, people
This is test 5 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
Sentence 1: In Bee Movie, the hero is a male bee who could sting people.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Bee | case |
| 2 | Bee | Bee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 bee | obl |
| 3 | Movie | Movie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Bee | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bee | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hero | det |
| 6 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bee | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 bee | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bee | det |
| 9 | male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bee | amod |
| 10 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 sting | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 sting | aux |
| 13 | sting | sting | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 bee | acl:relcl |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sting | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 bee | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the hero | a male bee | in Bee | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sting | could | a male bee | people | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer |
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 true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Only female bees have a sting; males cannot sting
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 bees | advmod |
| 2 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bees | amod |
| 3 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sting | det |
| 6 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 8 | males | male | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sting | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 sting | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 sting | advmod |
| 11 | sting | sting | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | female bees | a sting | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sting=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not sting | can | males | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
All bees sting, male or female, if they are cross
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 bees | det |
| 2 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sting | nsubj |
| 3 | sting | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 male | punct |
| 5 | male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sting | advmod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 female | cc |
| 7 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 male | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cross | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 cross | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cross | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 cross | cop |
| 12 | cross | cross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sting | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sting | present | all bees | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | bees = bee | cross property | tree rules |
Option 3
Only males can sting
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 males | advmod |
| 2 | males | male | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sting | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sting | aux |
| 4 | sting | sting | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sting | can | males | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
No bee can ever sting
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 bee | det |
| 2 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sting | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sting | aux |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 sting | advmod |
| 5 | sting | sting | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sting | can | no bee | ever | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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