Test 4 · ★★ · Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog…
In a cartoon, a bee stings a bear on the nose again and again. What is wrong for a honeybee?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: bee · What happens: sting, be · To what, where: bear, cartoon
This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 399 «Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog bites and cat scratches» 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 cartoon, a bee stings a bear on the nose again and again.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stings | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bee | det |
| 6 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stings | nsubj |
| 7 | stings | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bear | det |
| 9 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stings | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 nose | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 nose | det |
| 12 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stings | obl |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 stings | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 again | cc |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 again | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stings | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sting | present | a bee | a bear | a cartoon | again | on the nose | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bear=Experiencer on nose=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: What is wrong for a honeybee?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 honeybee | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 honeybee | det |
| 6 | honeybee | honeybee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrong | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | for a honeybee; wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Bees sting with their teeth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sting | nsubj |
| 2 | sting | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 teeth | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 5 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sting | present | Bees | with Bees's teeth | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A honeybee can sting only once and then dies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 honeybee | det |
| 2 | honeybee | honeybee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sting | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sting | aux |
| 4 | sting | sting | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 once | advmod |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 sting | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dies | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 dies | advmod |
| 9 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sting | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sting | can | a honeybee | once property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | die | present | a honeybee not said here | then | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 3
Bees can sting a hundred times, but only big animals like bears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sting | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sting | aux |
| 3 | sting | sting | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hundred | det |
| 5 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 times | nummod |
| 6 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sting | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 animals | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 animals | cc |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 animals | advmod |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 animals | amod |
| 11 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sting | obl |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 bears | case |
| 13 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 animals | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sting | can | Bees | big animals like bears | time | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
Bees never sting bears
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 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sting | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sting | present | Bees | bears | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bear=Experiencer |
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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