Test 16 · ★ · Bees, wasps and stings

Liam says one sting can never hurt anyone badly. true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Liam, one sting · What happens: say, not hurt · To what, where: anyone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 24 «Bees, wasps and stings» of the everyday 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	Liam	Liam	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sting	nummod
4	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hurt	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 hurt	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 hurt	advmod
7	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
8	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 hurt	obj
9	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 hurt	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
11	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Liam						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not hurt	can	one sting	anyone				badly property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, one sting is always small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 small	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sting	nummod
4	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 small	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 small	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 small	advmod
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	one sting					always, small property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, unless it is a bee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 bee	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	7 bee	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bee	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bee	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bee	det
7	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a bee					tree rules

Option 3

Yes, only big swarms are dangerous to people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 dangerous	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 swarms	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 swarms	amod
5	swarms	swarm	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dangerous	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dangerous	cop
7	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 people	case
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dangerous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	big swarms					to people; dangerous property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, a sting can be deadly for someone with an allergy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 deadly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sting	det
4	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 deadly	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 deadly	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 deadly	cop
7	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 someone	case
9	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 deadly	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 allergy	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 allergy	det
12	allergy	allergy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 someone	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	a sting					for someone; deadly property	tree rules

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