Test 4 · ★ · The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scor…
In Bee Movie, Barry is a boy bee who flies out to collect pollen. What is true of real honey bees?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Barry, boy bee · What happens: be, fly out, collect · To what, where: boy bee, pollen
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 97 «The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions» 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 Bee Movie, Barry is a boy bee who flies out to collect pollen.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Bee | case |
| 2 | Bee | Bee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bee | obl |
| 3 | Movie | Movie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Bee | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bee | punct |
| 5 | Barry | Barry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bee | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 bee | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bee | det |
| 8 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bee | compound |
| 9 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 flies | nsubj |
| 11 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 bee | acl:relcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 flies | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 collect | mark |
| 14 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 flies | advcl |
| 15 | pollen | pollen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 collect | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bee | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Barry | a boy bee | in Bee | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fly out | present | a boy bee | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | collect | to-infinitive | a boy bee not said here | pollen | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pollen=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 true of real honey bees?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bees | case |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bees | amod |
| 6 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bees | compound |
| 7 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 true | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | of real honey bees; true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Bees collect pollen with their little hands and fingers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 collect | nsubj |
| 2 | collect | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | pollen | pollen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 collect | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 hands | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hands | nmod:poss |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hands | amod |
| 7 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 collect | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fingers | cc |
| 9 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hands | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | present | Bees | pollen | with Bees's little hands and fingers | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pollen=Patient with hand=Instrument |
Option 2
The queen collects all the pollen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 collects | nsubj |
| 3 | collects | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 pollen | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pollen | det |
| 6 | pollen | pollen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 collects | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | present | the queen | all pollen | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The workers who collect pollen are all female
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 workers | det |
| 2 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 female | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 collect | nsubj |
| 4 | collect | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 workers | acl:relcl |
| 5 | pollen | pollen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 collect | obj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 female | cop |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 female | advmod |
| 8 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | present | the workers | pollen | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the workers | all, female property | tree rules |
Option 4
Only male bees collect pollen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 bees | advmod |
| 2 | male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bees | amod |
| 3 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 collect | nsubj |
| 4 | collect | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | pollen | pollen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 collect | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | present | male bees | pollen | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme |
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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