Test 8 · Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees, carpenter…

«there's a massive black bee drilling into the fence, it's gonna eat the whole thing» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: massive black bee, bee, whole thing · What happens: be, drill · To what, where: fence

This is test 8 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 's	punct
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 's	expl
3	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 eat	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bee	det
5	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bee	amod
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bee	amod
7	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 's	nsubj
8	drilling	drill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 bee	acl
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 fence	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fence	det
11	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drilling	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 's	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 eat	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 eat	cop
15	gonna	gonna	PART	_	16 eat	mark
16	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 thing	det
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 thing	amod
19	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eat	obj
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 thing	punct
21	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 right	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 right	cop
23	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 thing	acl:relcl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	a massive black bee	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drill in a quote	gerund	a massive black bee not said here	the fence		vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	is in a quote	present	bee		eat property	tree rules
4	is	present	the whole thing		right 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

It is sharpening its sting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sharpening	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sharpening	aux
3	sharpening	sharpen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 sting	nmod:poss
5	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sharpening	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sharpen	present · progressive	It	its sting					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sting=Patient
2	sting		its = it						nom sting «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

It eats wood like a termite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eats	nsubj
2	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eats	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 termite	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 termite	det
6	termite	termite	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	It	wood				like a termite	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient

Option 3

It is building a honeybee hive inside the fence for the winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 building	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 building	aux
3	building	build	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hive	det
5	honeybee	honeybee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hive	compound
6	hive	hive	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 building	obj
7	inside	inside	ADP	_	9 fence	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fence	det
9	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 building	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 winter	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 winter	det
12	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 building	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present · progressive	It	a honeybee hive		the fence	winter		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material hive=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is a carpenter bee nesting; it pushes the sawdust out and doesn't eat wood

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bee	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bee	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bee	det
4	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bee	compound
5	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	nesting	nest	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 bee	acl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 pushes	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pushes	nsubj
9	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bee	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sawdust	det
11	sawdust	sawdust	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pushes	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	9 pushes	compound:prt
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 eat	cc
14	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 eat	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 eat	advmod
16	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 pushes	conj
17	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a carpenter bee	tree rules
2	nest	gerund	a carpenter bee not said here		vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	push out	present	bee	the sawdust	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sawdust=Theme
4	not eat	present · do-support	bee not said here	wood	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient

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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