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Test 7 · Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees, carpenter…

You find neat round holes cut from your rose leaves. What most likely made them?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, neat round holes, rose · What happens: find, cut, leave, make · To what, where: holes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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: You find neat round holes cut from your rose leaves.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 find	nsubj
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 holes	amod
4	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 holes	amod
5	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cut	nsubj
6	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 find	ccomp
7	from	from	SCONJ	_	10 leaves	mark
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 rose	nmod:poss
9	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leaves	nsubj
10	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cut	advcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present	You						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	cut	present	neat round holes						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	leave	present	your rose						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 most likely made them?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 made	obl
2	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 likely	advmod
3	likely	likely	ADV	_	4 made	advmod
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		holes = hole				likely property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

A leafcutter bee making parcels for its eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bee	det
2	leafcutter	leafcutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bee	compound
3	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 making	nsubj
4	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	parcels	parcel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 making	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 eggs	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eggs	nmod:poss
8	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 making	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund	a leafcutter bee	parcels				for bee's eggs	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent parcel=Product for egg=Asset

Option 2

A bird pecking for water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	pecking	peck	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 bird	acl
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pecking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peck	gerund	a bird not said here					for water	vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Hailstones in the night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hailstones	hailstone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 night	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hailstones	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A hungry caterpillar eating its lunch, bite by bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 caterpillar	det
2	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 caterpillar	amod
3	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bite	nsubj
4	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 caterpillar	acl
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 lunch	nmod:poss
6	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eating	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 caterpillar	punct
8	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 bite	case
10	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bite	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund	a hungry caterpillar not said here	caterpillar's lunch					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Patient
2	bite	infinitive	a hungry caterpillar					by bite	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by bite=Location

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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