Test 9 · Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps

What would happen if all the worker bees in a hive stopped fanning the nectar?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: worker bees · What happens: happen, stop, fan · To what, where: nectar

This is test 9 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 stopped	mark
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 bees	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bees	det
7	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bees	compound
8	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stopped	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 hive	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hive	det
11	hive	hive	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bees	nmod
12	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
13	fanning	fan	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 stopped	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 nectar	det
15	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fanning	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop a condition, not said to happen	past	all worker bees in a hive		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	fan	gerund	all worker bees in a hive not said here	the nectar	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

The honey would stay watery and could go mouldy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 honey	det
2	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stay	aux
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	watery	watery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stay	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 go	cc
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stay	conj
9	mouldy	mouldy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 go	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	the honey					watery property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	could	the honey not said here					mouldy property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It would turn into wax

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 wax	case
5	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It			wax			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into wax=Trajectory

Option 3

The queen would have to make all the honey herself instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 honey	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 honey	det
9	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
10	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 make	obl
11	instead	instead	ADV	_	6 make	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	the queen						tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive	the queen not said here	all honey				queen obl; instead property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset honey=Product

Option 4

It would become stronger honey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 honey	amod
5	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	It	stronger honey					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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