Test 6 · ★ · Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230: a poet-student asks…
what happened to the queen bee's wings?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1019 «Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230: a poet-student asks a wise woman for help, and a cruel prince wins riches by destroying other lands» of the books 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 wings | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bee | det |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bee | compound |
| 6 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wings | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 bee | case |
| 8 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 happened | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | to the queen bee's wings | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
they just fell off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 fell | advmod |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 fell | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall off | past | they | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 2
the drones chewed them off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 drones | det |
| 2 | drones | drone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 chewed | nsubj |
| 3 | chewed | chew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 chewed | obj |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 chewed | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chew off | past | the drones | them = they | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the other bees bit them off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bees | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bees | amod |
| 3 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bit | nsubj |
| 4 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bit | obj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 bit | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite off | past | the other bees | them = they | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
Option 4
they got burned in the sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 burned | aux:pass |
| 3 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 sun | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sun | det |
| 6 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | past · passive | they | the sun | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
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