Test 12 · How animals defend themselves

Why might a bee give its life for the hive?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: bee · What happens: give · To what, where: life

This is test 12 of lesson 53 «How animals defend themselves» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 give	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bee	det
4	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
5	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 life	nmod:poss
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 hive	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hive	det
10	hive	hive	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	might	a bee	bee's life				for the hive	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Theme for hive=Asset

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

Bees always die after a week anyway, so it doesn't lose much at all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 die	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 die	advmod
3	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 week	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 week	det
6	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 die	obl
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	3 die	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lose	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 lose	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lose	nsubj
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 lose	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 lose	advmod
13	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 die	conj
14	much	much	ADV	_	13 lose	advmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 lose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	Bees				week	always, anyway property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	not lose	present · do-support	it			all			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent at all=Eventuality

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

The hive is full of its sisters, so protecting it protects its family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hive	det
2	hive	hive	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 sisters	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sisters	nmod:poss
7	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 full	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 protects	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 protects	advmod
10	protecting	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 protects	csubj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 protecting	obj
12	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 full	conj
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 family	nmod:poss
14	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 protects	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the hive		of hive's sisters; full property	tree rules
2	protect	gerund		hive		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary
3	protect	present	protecting	hive's family		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Beneficiary

Option 3

It wants to save its own honey for itself

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	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 save	mark
4	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 honey	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 honey	amod
7	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 save	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 itself	case
9	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 save	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	It						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	save not said to happen	to-infinitive		its own honey				for honey	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent honey=Theme for itself=Source

Option 4

It does not like the person it stung

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	4 like	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 like	advmod
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 like	obj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stung	nsubj
8	stung	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 person	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like	present · do-support	It	the person					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot person=Theme
2	sting	past	person	the person not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus person=Experiencer

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