Test 2 · Honey and the beekeeper's year
In Bee Movie, Barry is a boy bee who goes to work making honey. What is wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Barry, boy bee · What happens: be, go, work, make · To what, where: boy bee, honey
This is test 2 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 Bee Movie, Barry is a boy bee who goes to work making honey.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Bee | case |
| 2 | Bee | Bee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bee | obl |
| 3 | Movie | Movie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Bee | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bee | punct |
| 5 | Barry | Barry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bee | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 bee | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bee | det |
| 8 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bee | compound |
| 9 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 goes | nsubj |
| 11 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 bee | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 work | mark |
| 13 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 goes | xcomp |
| 14 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 work | advcl |
| 15 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 making | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bee | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Barry | a boy bee | in Bee | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | present | a boy bee | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive | a boy bee not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | make | gerund | a boy bee not said here | honey | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset honey=Product |
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 is wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Honey is made by the queen bee alone in her cell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux:pass |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 bee | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bee | det |
| 6 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bee | compound |
| 7 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 8 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 cell | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cell | nmod:poss |
| 11 | cell | cell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | the queen bee | Honey | bee's cell | alone property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product |
Option 2
Nothing, the boy bees make all the honey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 make | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bees | det |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bees | compound |
| 5 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 make | nsubj |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 honey | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 honey | det |
| 9 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Nothing | all honey | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material honey=Product |
Option 3
Bees do not make honey; they collect it from flowers ready-made
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 make | advmod |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 collect | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 collect | nsubj |
| 8 | collect | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | parataxis |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 collect | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 flowers | case |
| 11 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 collect | obl |
| 12 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 collect | advcl |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 ready | punct |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | present · do-support | Bees | honey | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | collect | present | Bees = bee | honey | flowers | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from flower=Source | |||
| 3 | not make | participle | honey not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The honey-making workers are all female
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 workers | det |
| 2 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 making | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 honey | punct |
| 4 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 workers | amod |
| 5 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 female | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 female | cop |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 female | advmod |
| 8 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | the making workers | all, female property | tree rules |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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