Test 9 · ★★★ · How animals talk

«the bee's just dancing for fun, bees love a boogie» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bee, bees, boogie · What happens: dance, love, be · To what, where: boogie

This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 50 «How animals talk» 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	_	6 dancing	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bee	det
3	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dancing	nsubj
4	's	's	PART	_	3 bee	case
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 dancing	advmod
6	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 fun	case
8	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dancing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 love	punct
10	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 love	nsubj
11	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dancing	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 boogie	det
13	boogie	boogie	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 love	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 boogie	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 boogie	acl:relcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 dancing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dance in a quote	gerund	the bee		for fun	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	love in a quote	present	bees	a boogie		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boogie=Stimulus
3	is	present	a boogie		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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She is showing the way and distance to flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 showing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 showing	aux
3	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 showing	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 distance	cc
7	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 way	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 flowers	case
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 showing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · progressive	She	the way and distance	flowers				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Topic to flower=Recipient

Option 2

Right, bees dance to have fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 dance	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dance	punct
3	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dance	nsubj
4	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 have	mark
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dance	xcomp
7	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	present	bees						tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive	bees not said here	fun					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient

Option 3

She is fanning to cool the hive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fanning	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fanning	aux
3	fanning	fan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 cool	mark
5	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fanning	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hive	det
7	hive	hive	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cool	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fan	present · progressive	She						tree rules
2	cool	to-infinitive	She not said here	the hive					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hive=Patient

Option 4

She is fighting another bee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fighting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fighting	aux
3	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 bee	det
5	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fighting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	present · progressive	She	another bee					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bee=Co-Agent

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