Test 6 · Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees, carpenter…
In a cartoon, Winnie-the-Pooh finds a honeybee hive in a tree. Which bees would you find in a hollow stem in a bee hotel instead?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Winnie, bees · What happens: find · To what, where: honeybee hive, cartoon, hollow stem
This is test 6 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 a cartoon, Winnie-the-Pooh finds a honeybee hive in a tree.
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 | 10 finds | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | Winnie | Winnie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 finds | nsubj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Pooh | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Pooh | det |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 the | punct |
| 9 | Pooh | Pooh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Winnie | flat |
| 10 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hive | det |
| 12 | honeybee | honeybee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hive | compound |
| 13 | hive | hive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 finds | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 tree | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 finds | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 finds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | Winnie | a honeybee hive | a cartoon | in a tree | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hive=Topic |
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: Which bees would you find in a hollow stem in a bee hotel instead?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 bees | det |
| 2 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 find | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 find | nsubj |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 stem | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 stem | det |
| 8 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stem | amod |
| 9 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hotel | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hotel | det |
| 12 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hotel | compound |
| 13 | hotel | hotel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stem | nmod |
| 14 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 5 find | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | would | which bees | a hollow stem in a bee hotel | instead property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Bumblebee queens in winter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bumblebee | bumblebee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 queens | compound |
| 2 | queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 winter | case |
| 4 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 queens | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Stingless bees from Brazil
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stingless | stingless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bees | amod |
| 2 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Brazil | case |
| 4 | Brazil | Brazil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 bees | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Solitary bees like mason bees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Solitary | solitary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bees | amod |
| 2 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 bees | case |
| 4 | mason | mason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bees | compound |
| 5 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bees | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A whole honeybee colony
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 colony | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 colony | amod |
| 3 | honeybee | honeybee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 colony | compound |
| 4 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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