Test 1 · Honey and the beekeeper's year

In Winnie-the-Pooh, Pooh eats honey from a pot all year and the bees never miss it. What does a real beekeeper know?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Pooh, bees · What happens: eat, not miss, do · To what, where: honey, Winnie, real beekeeper know

This is test 1 of lesson 344 «Honey and the beekeeper's year» 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 Winnie-the-Pooh, Pooh eats honey from a pot all year and the bees never miss it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 Winnie	case
2	Winnie	Winnie	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 eats	obl
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Pooh	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Pooh	det
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 the	punct
6	Pooh	Pooh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Winnie	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Winnie	punct
8	Pooh	Pooh	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 eats	nsubj
9	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eats	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 pot	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pot	det
13	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eats	obl
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 year	det
15	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eats	obl:unmarked
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 miss	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bees	det
18	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 miss	nsubj
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 miss	advmod
20	miss	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 eats	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 miss	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 eats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Pooh	honey		Winnie	year	from a pot	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Patient
2	not miss	present	the bees	honey					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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 does a real beekeeper know?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 does	nsubj
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 know	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 know	amod
5	beekeeper	beekeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 know	compound
6	know	know	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		a real beekeeper know					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent know=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Bees make honey only for bears, so it is fine to let the bears have all of it

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 bears	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 bears	case
6	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fine	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 fine	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fine	expl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fine	cop
11	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 let	mark
13	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 fine	csubj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bears	det
15	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 have	nsubj
16	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 let	ccomp
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 have	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	Bees	honey	for bears	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent honey=Material for bear=Beneficiary
2	is	present	Bees not said here		fine property	tree rules
3	let	to-infinitive				tree rules
4	have	present	the bears	all		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Patient

Option 2

Bees never eat their own honey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 eat	advmod
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 honey	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 honey	amod
6	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	present	Bees	Bees's own honey					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Bees need stored honey to live through winter, so some must be left for them

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stored	store	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 honey	amod
4	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 live	mark
6	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 need	advcl
7	through	through	ADP	_	8 winter	case
8	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 live	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 left	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 left	advmod
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 left	nsubj:pass
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 left	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 left	aux:pass
14	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 need	parataxis
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Bees	stored honey			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot honey=Theme
2	store	participle					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	live	to-infinitive	Bees not said here		winter		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	leave	must · passive		some		for Bees = bee	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme for they=Recipient

Option 4

Bees refill a hive overnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 refill	nsubj
2	refill	refill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hive	det
4	hive	hive	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 refill	obj
5	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	2 refill	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refill	present	Bees	a hive				overnight property	tree rules

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