Test 5 · Honey and the beekeeper's year
About how many worker bees' lifetimes of work go into one teaspoon of honey?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lifetimes · What happens: go · To what, where: one teaspoon
This is test 5 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 | About | about | ADP | _ | 7 lifetimes | case |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 many | advmod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bees | amod |
| 4 | worker | worker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bees | compound |
| 5 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lifetimes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 bees | case |
| 7 | lifetimes | lifetime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 go | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 work | case |
| 9 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lifetimes | nmod |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 teaspoon | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 teaspoon | nummod |
| 13 | teaspoon | teaspoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 honey | case |
| 15 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 teaspoon | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | many worker bees's lifetimes of work | one teaspoon of honey | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into teaspoon=Initial_Location |
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 · ← Mova's choice
About 1
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 1 | advmod |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About 100
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 100 | advmod |
| 2 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About 1000
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 1000 | advmod |
| 2 | 1000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
About 12
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 12 | advmod |
| 2 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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