Test 12 · Honey and the beekeeper's year

Why do you think winter bees live so much longer than summer bees?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, winter bees · What happens: think, live · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 think	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bees	compound
6	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 live	nsubj
7	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 think	ccomp
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADV	_	10 longer	advmod
10	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 live	advmod
11	than	than	ADP	_	13 bees	case
12	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bees	compound
13	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 longer	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · do-support	you						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	live	present	winter bees					long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

They eat a special winter 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 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 food	det
4	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 food	amod
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 food	compound
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	They	a special winter food					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They do not wear themselves out flying and foraging all day

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	4 wear	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wear	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 wear	advmod
4	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 wear	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 wear	compound:prt
7	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 wear	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 foraging	cc
9	foraging	forage	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 flying	conj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 foraging	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not wear out	present · do-support	They	themselves = they		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent themselves=Source
2	fly	gerund	They not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	forage	gerund	They not said here		day	vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They are a different kind of insect

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	5 kind	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kind	det
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kind	amod
5	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 insect	case
7	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	a different kind				of insect	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They sleep in the ground all 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 sleep	nsubj
2	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 ground	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ground	det
5	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sleep	obl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 winter	det
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sleep	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	They			the ground	winter		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in ground=Location

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