Test 10 · Honey and the beekeeper's year

What would happen to many hives if beekeepers stopped caring for them against varroa mites?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: beekeepers · What happens: happen, stop, care

This is test 10 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

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 hives	case
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hives	amod
6	hives	hive	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 stopped	mark
8	beekeepers	beekeeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stopped	nsubj
9	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
10	caring	care	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 stopped	xcomp
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 caring	obl
13	against	against	ADP	_	15 mites	case
14	varroa	varroa	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mites	compound
15	mites	mite	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 caring	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	happen	would		to many hives	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop a condition, not said to happen	past	beekeepers		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	care	gerund	beekeepers not said here	for beekeepers = beekeeper; against varroa mites	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for they=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.

The options

Option 1

Nothing, mites only bite people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 mites	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	mites	mite	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bite	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 bite	advmod
5	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bite	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	Nothing mites	people					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Many would sicken and die

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sicken	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sicken	aux
3	sicken	sicken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 die	cc
5	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sicken	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sicken	would	Many						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	die	infinitive	Many not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

The mites would make honey instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mites	det
2	mites	mite	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 make	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	the mites	honey				instead property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The bees would make more honey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bees	det
2	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 honey	amod
6	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	the bees	more honey					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Product

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