Test 10 · Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps

Why are wasp nest cells six-sided?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be, side · To what, where: wasp nest cells

This is test 10 of lesson 36 «Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps» 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	5 cells	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cells	cop
3	wasp	wasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cells	compound
4	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cells	compound
5	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sided	nsubj:pass
6	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 sided	nummod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 six	punct
8	sided	side	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 sided	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		wasp nest cells					tree rules
2	side	participle · passive		wasp nest cells					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination

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

Round cells are much too hard for wasps to make with their jaws

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cells	amod
2	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hard	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hard	cop
4	much	much	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 wasps	case
8	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hard	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 make	mark
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hard	csubj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 jaws	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 jaws	nmod:poss
13	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Round cells					for wasps; hard property	tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive						with cells's jaws	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Six-sided cells fit with no gaps and use the least material

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 sided	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Six	punct
3	sided	sided	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cells	amod
4	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fit	nsubj
5	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 gaps	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 gaps	det
8	gaps	gap	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fit	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 use	cc
10	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fit	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 material	det
12	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 material	amod
13	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	present	sided cells					with no gaps	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	use	present	sided cells not said here	the least material					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent material=Patient

Option 3

Wasps have six legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 legs	nummod
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Wasps	six legs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient

Option 4

They copy them from snowflakes

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 copy	nsubj
2	copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 copy	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 snowflakes	case
5	snowflakes	snowflake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 copy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	present	They	them = they		snowflakes			vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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