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Test 10 · ★★ · Flowers and pollination

Mate reckons you're eating dead wasps in every fig. True?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate, you · What happens: reckon, eat · To what, where: dead wasps, fig

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 58 «Flowers and pollination» 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: Mate reckons you're eating dead wasps in every fig.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 eating	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 eating	aux
5	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 reckons	ccomp
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wasps	amod
7	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eating	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 fig	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 fig	det
10	fig	fig	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eating	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Mate						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	eat	present · progressive	you	dead wasps		every fig			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wasp=Patient

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: True?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1

Yes, each fig holds hundreds of live wasps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 holds	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 fig	det
4	fig	fig	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 holds	nsubj
5	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 holds	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 wasps	case
8	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wasps	amod
9	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hundreds	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	each fig	hundreds of live wasps					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme

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

Not really: many shop figs need no wasps, and wild figs digest them

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 need	advmod
2	really	really	ADV	_	7 need	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 need	punct
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 figs	amod
5	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 figs	compound
6	figs	fig	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 need	nsubj
7	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 wasps	det
9	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 need	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 digest	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 digest	cc
12	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 figs	amod
13	figs	fig	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 digest	nsubj
14	digest	digest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 need	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 digest	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present	many shop figs	no wasps					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wasp=Theme
2	digest	present	wild figs	wasps = wasp					tree rules

Option 3

Yes, that is why figs are crunchy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 why	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 why	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 why	cop
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
6	figs	fig	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 crunchy	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 crunchy	cop
8	crunchy	crunchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 why	advcl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					why property	tree rules
2	is	present	figs					crunchy property	tree rules

Option 4

No, wasps never go near figs, they hate the smell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 go	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 go	advmod
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	near	near	ADP	_	7 figs	case
7	figs	fig	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 go	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hate	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hate	nsubj
10	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 go	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 smell	det
12	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	present	wasps			figs			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near fig=Location
2	hate	present	wasps = wasp	the smell					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smell=Stimulus

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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