Test 9 · Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, lime…

Why do willow catkins help bees so much?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: willow catkins · What happens: help · To what, where: bees

This is test 9 of lesson 339 «Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, limes and willows apart» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 help	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 help	aux
3	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catkins	compound
4	catkins	catkin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 help	nsubj
5	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 help	obj
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	5 help	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present · do-support	willow catkins		bees				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bee=Beneficiary

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

Bees eat the willow bark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bark	det
4	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bark	compound
5	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Bees	the willow bark					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bark=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They flower very early, when there is little other food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flower	nsubj
2	flower	flower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 early	advmod
4	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 flower	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 flower	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 is	advmod
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 is	expl
8	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 flower	advcl
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 food	amod
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 food	amod
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 is	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flower	present	They					early property	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	present	little other food			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They give bees a place to sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 give	nsubj
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 place	det
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sleep	mark
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 place	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	They	a place	bees				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent bee=Recipient place=Theme
2	sleep	to-infinitive	They not said here	a place not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They give bees a soft, warm place to sleep through the cold winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 give	nsubj
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 place	det
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 place	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 soft	punct
7	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 place	amod
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 sleep	mark
10	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 place	acl
11	through	through	ADP	_	14 winter	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 winter	det
13	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 winter	amod
14	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	They	a soft warm place	bees		winter		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent bee=Recipient place=Theme
2	sleep	to-infinitive	They not said here	a soft warm place not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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