Test 4 · Honey and the beekeeper's year

«bees are asleep all winter like bears, yeah?» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bees, best answer · What happens: be

This is test 4 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: «bees are asleep all winter like bears, yeah?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 asleep	punct
2	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 asleep	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 asleep	cop
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 winter	det
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asleep	obl:unmarked
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 bears	case
8	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 winter	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 asleep	punct
10	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 asleep	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 asleep	punct
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 asleep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	bees				winter	asleep property	tree rules

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 the best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1

No, they fly to hot countries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 fly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fly	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fly	nsubj
4	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 countries	case
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 countries	amod
7	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	they					to hot countries result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to country=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, honeybees do not hibernate; they huddle and shiver to stay warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 hibernate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	honeybees	honeybee	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hibernate	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hibernate	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 hibernate	advmod
6	hibernate	hibernate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 huddle	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 huddle	nsubj
9	huddle	huddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hibernate	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shiver	cc
11	shiver	shiver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 huddle	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 stay	mark
13	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 shiver	xcomp
14	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not hibernate	present · do-support	honeybees		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location
2	huddle	present	honeybees = honeybee		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	shiver	present	honeybees = honeybee not said here		tree rules
4	stay	to-infinitive	honeybees = honeybee not said here	warm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, they curl up and sleep in holes under the ground until spring comes

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 curl	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 curl	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 curl	nsubj
4	curl	curl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 curl	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sleep	cc
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 curl	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 holes	case
9	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 curl	obl
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 ground	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ground	det
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 holes	nmod
13	until	until	SCONJ	_	15 comes	mark
14	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 comes	nsubj
15	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 curl	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	curl up	present	they	holes under the ground	vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
2	sleep	infinitive	they not said here		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	present	spring		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, but they wake up every hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 wake	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wake	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 wake	cc
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wake	nsubj
5	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 wake	compound:prt
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 hour	det
8	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wake	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	present	they				hour		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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