Test 12 · Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps
In a game your bee hero is a male worker who stings enemies. What's wrong?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bee hero, male worker · What happens: be, sting · To what, where: male worker, game, enemies
This is test 12 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: In a game your bee hero is a male worker who stings enemies.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 game | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 game | det |
| 3 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 worker | obl |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hero | nmod:poss |
| 5 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hero | compound |
| 6 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 worker | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 worker | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 worker | det |
| 9 | male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 worker | amod |
| 10 | worker | worker | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 stings | nsubj |
| 12 | stings | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 worker | acl:relcl |
| 13 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stings | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 worker | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | your bee hero | a male worker | a game | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sting | present | a male worker | enemies | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus enemy=Experiencer |
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's wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Workers are female, and males cannot sting
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 female | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 female | cop |
| 3 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sting | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sting | cc |
| 6 | males | male | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sting | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 sting | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 sting | advmod |
| 9 | sting | sting | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 female | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Workers | female property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not sting | can | males | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
Nothing, male workers sting very well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 sting | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 workers | amod |
| 4 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sting | nsubj |
| 5 | sting | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 well | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 sting | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sting | present | Nothing | well property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Bees never sting anything
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sting | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 sting | advmod |
| 3 | sting | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 sting | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sting | present | Bees | anything | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus anything=Experiencer |
Option 4
Only queens can fly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 queens | advmod |
| 2 | queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fly | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fly | aux |
| 4 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | can | queens | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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