Test 8 · ★ · Bees, wasps and stings

Why is it a bad idea to wave your arms at a bee?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, wave · To what, where: bad idea, arms

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 idea	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 idea	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 idea	expl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 idea	det
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 idea	amod
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 wave	mark
8	wave	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 idea	acl
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 arms	nmod:poss
10	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wave	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 bee	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bee	det
13	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wave	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 idea	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a bad idea					tree rules
2	wave	to-infinitive		your arms				at a bee	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=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 · ✓ the right answer

It feels attacked and is more likely to sting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feels	nsubj
2	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	attacked	attack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 feels	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 likely	cc
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 likely	cop
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 likely	advmod
7	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 feels	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sting	mark
9	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 likely	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	feel	present	It		vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	attack	participle			vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present		likely property	tree rules
4	sting	to-infinitive			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Bees like waving and come closer to play

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 waving	nsubj
2	like	like	SCONJ	_	3 waving	mark
3	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 come	cc
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 waving	conj
6	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 come	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 play	mark
8	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wave	gerund	Bees		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	present	Bees not said here	close property	tree rules
3	play	to-infinitive	Bees not said here		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Waving makes bees lose their sting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Waving	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sting	nmod:poss
6	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wave	gerund			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present		bees	tree rules
3	lose	infinitive	bees not said here	bees's sting	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sting=Eventuality
4	sting		bees = bee		nom sting «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Bees can only see moving arms, so it will find you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 see	xcomp
6	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 moving	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 find	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 find	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 find	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 find	aux
11	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 see	conj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	see	can	Bees		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	move	gerund	Bees not said here	arms	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
3	find	future	it	you	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic

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