Test 11 · Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps
A beekeeper lifts a frame crawling with bees. Most of them are what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: beekeeper, frame, Most · What happens: lift, crawl, be · To what, where: frame
This is test 11 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
Sentence 1: A beekeeper lifts a frame crawling with bees.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 beekeeper | det |
| 2 | beekeeper | beekeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lifts | nsubj |
| 3 | lifts | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 frame | det |
| 5 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lifts | obj |
| 6 | crawling | crawl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 frame | acl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 bees | case |
| 8 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 crawling | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lifts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | present | a beekeeper | a frame | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frame=Theme | ||||
| 2 | crawl | gerund | a frame not said here | with bees | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with bee=Theme |
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: Most of them are what?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 what | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Most | nmod |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | cop |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Most of bees | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The male drones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 drones | det |
| 2 | male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 drones | amod |
| 3 | drones | drone | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Baby bees in the cells
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bees | compound |
| 2 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 cells | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cells | det |
| 5 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bees | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Female workers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 workers | amod |
| 2 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The queens of the hive
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 queens | det |
| 2 | queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 hive | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hive | det |
| 5 | hive | hive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 queens | nmod |
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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