Test 6 · Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails

My mate counted a bee's wings and got two, so bees have two wings, innit?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, bees · What happens: count, get, have, innit · To what, where: wings, two, two wings

This is test 6 of lesson 40 «Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails» 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 counted	nsubj
3	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bee	det
5	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wings	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 bee	case
7	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 counted	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 got	cc
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 counted	conj
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 got	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 have	advmod
13	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 counted	parataxis
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 wings	nummod
16	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 have	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 innit	punct
18	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 have	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 counted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	count	past	My mate	a bee's wings	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Theme
2	get	past	My mate not said here	two	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer two=Stimulus
3	have	present	bees	two wings	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
4	innit	infinitive	bees not said here		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

Yes, but queens have four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 have	cc
4	queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	queens	four					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent four=Patient

Option 2

No, bees have six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	bees	six					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent six=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, bees have just two wings, like house flies do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 two	advmod
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 wings	nummod
7	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 flies	case
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flies	compound
11	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 do	nsubj
12	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	bees	two wings					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
2	do	present	house flies						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, bees have four, hooked together in pairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 bees	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hooked	punct
7	hooked	hook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 have	xcomp
8	together	together	ADV	_	7 hooked	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 pairs	case
10	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hooked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	bees	four					tree rules
2	hook	participle	four not said here			pairs		together property	vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme

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