Test 18 · ★ · Bees, wasps and stings

my mate says bees can sting you loads of times like wasps

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, bees · What happens: say, sting · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sting	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sting	aux
6	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 sting	obj
8	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sting	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 times	case
10	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 loads	nmod
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 wasps	case
12	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sting	can	bees	you				like wasps	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer load=Result

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

He is right, but only in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 summer	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 summer	cc
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 summer	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 summer	case
8	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 right	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules

Option 2

He is right, bees sting more than wasps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sting	punct
5	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sting	nsubj
6	sting	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	9 wasps	advmod
8	than	than	ADP	_	7 more	fixed
9	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	sting	present	bees	wasps					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Not true for honeybees; a honeybee leaves its stinger and dies, but a wasp can sting more than once

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 true	advmod
2	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 honeybees	case
4	honeybees	honeybee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 true	obl
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 leaves	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 honeybee	det
7	honeybee	honeybee	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leaves	nsubj
8	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 true	parataxis
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 stinger	nmod:poss
10	stinger	stinger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leaves	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dies	cc
12	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 leaves	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sting	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 sting	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 wasp	det
16	wasp	wasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sting	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 sting	aux
18	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 true	parataxis
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	18 sting	advmod
20	than	than	ADP	_	19 more	fixed
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 sting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	present	a honeybee	its stinger		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stinger=Theme
2	die	present	a honeybee not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	sting	can	a wasp		once property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

He is right, both sting many times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sting	punct
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 sting	nsubj
6	sting	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 times	amod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sting	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	sting	present	both				time		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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