Test 6 · ★ · Bees, wasps and stings

What would happen if you hit a wasps' nest with a stick?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, hit · To what, where: nest

This is test 6 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 hit	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 hit	nsubj
6	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wasps	det
8	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 nest	nmod:poss
9	'	's	PART	_	8 wasps	case
10	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hit	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 stick	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 stick	det
13	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hit	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hit a condition, not said to happen	present	you	a wasps's nest				with a stick	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent nest=Patient with stick=Instrument

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 · ✓ the right answer

Many wasps would come out to defend it and sting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wasps	amod
2	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 defend	mark
7	defend	defend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 defend	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sting	cc
10	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 defend	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	would	Many wasps					out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	defend	to-infinitive	Many wasps not said here	it					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary

Option 2

Nothing, wasps cannot sense it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 wasps	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sense	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sense	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 sense	advmod
6	sense	sense	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sense	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sense	can	Nothing wasps	it					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3

The wasps would all fly away for good and never come back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wasps	det
2	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fly	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fly	aux
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 fly	advmod
5	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 fly	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 good	case
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fly	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 come	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 come	advmod
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fly	conj
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	would	the wasps					for good; all, away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not come back	infinitive	the wasps not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The nest would turn into honey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nest	det
2	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 honey	case
6	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the nest			honey			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into honey=Trajectory

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