Test 8 · ★ · Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, f…

Which is true about stings?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	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	about	about	ADP	_	5 stings	case
5	stings	sting	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about stings; true property	tree rules

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

Bumblebees always die after one sting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bumblebees	bumblebee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 die	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 die	advmod
3	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 sting	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sting	nummod
6	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 die	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	Bumblebees				after one sting	always property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

A honeybee can sting again and again without harm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 honeybee	det
2	honeybee	honeybee	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sting	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sting	aux
4	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 sting	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 again	cc
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 again	conj
8	without	without	ADP	_	9 harm	case
9	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sting	can	a honeybee				again	without harm	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

All insects that sting die afterwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 insects	det
2	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 sting	nsubj
4	sting	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 insects	acl:relcl
5	die	die	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sting	obj
6	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	4 sting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sting	present	all insects	die				afterwards property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus die=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A wasp can sting many times and does not die

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	4 sting	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sting	aux
4	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 times	amod
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sting	obl:unmarked
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 die	cc
8	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 die	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 die	advmod
10	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sting	conj

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

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