Test 4 · ★★ · Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughin…

«bees are tiny, they can't count nothing» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: bees · What happens: be, not count · To what, where: nothing

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 388 «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 tiny	punct
2	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tiny	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tiny	cop
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 count	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 count	nsubj
7	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 count	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 count	advmod
9	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tiny	parataxis
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 count	obj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 nothing	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 right	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 right	cop
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 nothing	acl:relcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tiny	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	bees		tiny property	tree rules
2	not count in a quote	can	bees = bee	nothing		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
3	is	present			right property	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

Only queen bees can count, and they count all the eggs in the hive

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 bees	advmod
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bees	compound
3	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 count	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 count	aux
5	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 count	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 count	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 count	nsubj
9	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 count	conj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 eggs	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 eggs	det
12	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 count	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 hive	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hive	det
15	hive	hive	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 count	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	can	queen bees						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	count	present	bees = bee	all eggs		the hive			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme

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

In tests they learned to count landmarks up to about four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 tests	case
2	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learned	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 learned	nsubj
4	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 count	mark
6	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 learned	xcomp
7	landmarks	landmark	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 count	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 count	compound:prt
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 four	case
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 four	advmod
11	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 count	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past	tests = test			tests			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	count up	to-infinitive	tests = test not said here	landmarks				to four	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent landmark=Theme to four=be'

Option 3

Bees can count to a million

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 count	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 count	aux
3	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 million	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 million	det
6	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 count	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	can	Bees					to a million	vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to million=Experiencer

Option 4

Bees have no brains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 brains	det
4	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Bees	no brains					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient

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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