Exam question 2 · Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps

Identify the principal function of the honeybee's waggle dance.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, honeybee · What happens: identify, dance · To what, where: principal function

This is exam question 2 of lesson 36 «Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 function	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 function	amod
4	function	function	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	10 dance	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 honeybee	det
7	honeybee	honeybee	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dance	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 honeybee	case
9	waggle	waggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dance	compound
10	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 function	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal function of the honeybee's waggle dance					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent function=Theme
2	dance		the honeybee						nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

To expel drones from the hive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 expel	mark
2	expel	expel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	drones	drone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 expel	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 hive	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hive	det
6	hive	hive	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 expel	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expel	to-infinitive		drones		the hive			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent drone=Theme from hive=Source

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To communicate the direction and distance of a food source

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 communicate	mark
2	communicate	communicate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 direction	det
4	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 communicate	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 distance	cc
6	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 direction	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 source	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 source	det
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 source	compound
10	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 distance	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	communicate	to-infinitive		the direction and distance of a food source					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Topic

Option 3

To summon the colony to sleep at dusk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 summon	mark
2	summon	summon	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 colony	det
4	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 summon	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sleep	mark
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 summon	advcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 dusk	case
8	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	summon	to-infinitive		the colony					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colony=Recipient
2	sleep	to-infinitive					dusk		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

To warm the brood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 warm	mark
2	warm	warm	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brood	det
4	brood	brood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 warm	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warm	to-infinitive		the brood					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent brood=Patient

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