Test 14 · ★ · Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, f…

my mate says "every bee dies when it stings, so they can only get u once". true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, bee, they · What happens: say, die, sting, get · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 326 «Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 dies	punct
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 bee	det
6	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dies	nsubj
7	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 stings	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stings	nsubj
10	stings	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dies	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 get	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	16 get	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 get	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 get	aux
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 get	advmod
16	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
17	u	u	ADV	_	18 once	advmod
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 get	advmod
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 get	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 true	punct
21	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	parataxis
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	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	die in a quote	present	every bee		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	sting in a quote	present	bee		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
4	get in a quote	can	they	once property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, wasps and bumblebees can sting again and do not die

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 wasps	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sting	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bumblebees	cc
5	bumblebees	bumblebee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wasps	conj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 sting	aux
7	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	again	again	ADV	_	7 sting	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 die	cc
10	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 die	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 die	advmod
12	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sting	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sting	can	wasps and bumblebees				again		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	not die	infinitive · do-support	wasps and bumblebees not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

Yes, but only in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 summer	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 summer	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 summer	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 summer	case
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Yes, it's a scientific fact

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Yes, every bee and wasp dies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 dies	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 bee	det
4	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dies	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wasp	cc
6	wasp	wasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bee	conj
7	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	every bee and wasp						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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