Test 9 · Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees, carpenter…

What would happen to tomato flowers in a greenhouse with no bumblebees or other buzzing help?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen · To what, where: greenhouse

This is test 9 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 flowers	case
5	tomato	tomato	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flowers	compound
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 greenhouse	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 greenhouse	det
9	greenhouse	greenhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 bumblebees	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 bumblebees	det
12	bumblebees	bumblebee	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 greenhouse	nmod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 help	cc
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 help	amod
15	buzzing	buzzing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 help	compound
16	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bumblebees	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				a greenhouse with no bumblebees or other buzzing help		to tomato flowers	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in greenhouse=Location

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

Nothing at all would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The tomatoes would grow even bigger without bees bothering them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tomatoes	det
2	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 bigger	advmod
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	xcomp
7	without	without	ADP	_	8 bees	case
8	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bigger	obl
9	bothering	bother	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 bees	acl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bothering	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	the tomatoes					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bother	gerund	bees not said here	tomatoes = tomato					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Much of the pollen would stay locked inside the flower tubes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stay	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 pollen	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pollen	det
4	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Much	nmod
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 stay	aux
6	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 stay	xcomp
8	inside	inside	ADP	_	11 tubes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tubes	det
10	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tubes	compound
11	tubes	tube	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 locked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	Much of the pollen						tree rules
2	lock	participle	Much of the pollen not said here			the flower tubes			vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

The flowers would buzz by themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flowers	det
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 buzz	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 buzz	aux
4	buzz	buzz	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 themselves	case
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 buzz	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buzz	would	the flowers					by flowers = flower	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by themselves=Location

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