Test 4 · ★★ · The night sky and outdoor myths
A wasp stings you once. What is true?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: wasp · What happens: sting, be · To what, where: you
This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 240 «The night sky and outdoor myths» 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
Sentence 1: A wasp stings you once.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 wasp | det |
| 2 | wasp | wasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stings | nsubj |
| 3 | stings | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 stings | obj |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 stings | advmod |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stings | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sting | present | a wasp | you | once property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
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.
Sentence 2: What is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
It cannot sting a second person
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 | 4 sting | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sting | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 sting | advmod |
| 4 | sting | sting | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 person | det |
| 6 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 person | amod |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sting | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sting | can | It | a second person | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus person=Experiencer |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It can sting again, because wasps do not die after stinging
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 | 3 sting | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sting | aux |
| 3 | sting | sting | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 sting | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 die | punct |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 die | mark |
| 7 | wasps | wasp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 die | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 die | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 die | advmod |
| 10 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sting | conj |
| 11 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 stinging | mark |
| 12 | stinging | sting | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 die | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sting | can | It | again | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not die | present · do-support | wasps | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | sting | gerund | wasps not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
It will drop dead straight away, just like every honeybee does
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 | 3 drop | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 drop | aux |
| 3 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 drop | obj |
| 5 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 6 away | advmod |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 drop | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 does | punct |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 honeybee | advmod |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 honeybee | case |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 honeybee | det |
| 11 | honeybee | honeybee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 does | nsubj |
| 12 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 drop | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | future | It | dead | away property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dead=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | present | every honeybee | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Its sting stays stuck in your skin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sting | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stays | nsubj |
| 3 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stays | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 skin | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 skin | nmod:poss |
| 7 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stays | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | Its sting | your skin | stuck property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in skin=Location | |||
| 2 | sting | Its = it | nom sting «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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