Test 8 · Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps

Why does a honeybee die after stinging you but a wasp does not?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: honeybee die, wasp · What happens: do, sting, not do · To what, where: honeybee die, you

This is test 8 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	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 die	det
4	honeybee	honeybee	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 die	compound
5	die	die	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 stinging	mark
7	stinging	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 die	acl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 stinging	obj
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 does	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wasp	det
11	wasp	wasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 does	nsubj
12	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 does	conj
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 does	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	present		a honeybee die	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent die=Eventuality
2	sting	gerund	a honeybee die not said here	you	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
3	not do	present	a wasp		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Wasps never sting people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wasps	wasp	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	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sting	present	Wasps	people					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer

Option 2

Wasps keep spare stings in their legs, so they never run out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	nsubj
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	spare	spare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stings	amod
4	stings	sting	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 legs	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 legs	nmod:poss
7	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 run	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 run	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 run	nsubj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 run	advmod
12	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 keep	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 run	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Wasps	spare stings		Wasps's legs			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sting=Theme in leg=Location
2	not run out	present	Wasps = wasp						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Bees are allergic to people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 allergic	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 allergic	cop
3	allergic	allergic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 people	case
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 allergic	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Bees					to people; allergic property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The bee's sting has barbs that stay stuck; the wasp's is smooth

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bee	det
2	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sting	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bee	case
4	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	barbs	barb	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 has	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 stay	nsubj
8	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 barbs	acl:relcl
9	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stay	xcomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 smooth	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wasp	det
12	wasp	wasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 smooth	nsubj
13	's	's	PART	_	12 wasp	case
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 smooth	cop
15	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 has	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	the bee's sting	barbs		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barb=Patient
2	stay	present	barbs		stuck property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	the wasp		smooth property	tree rules
4	sting		the bee			nom sting «state transitive»: poss=agent

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