Test 7 · Burns, sunburn and stings

Why scrape a bee sting out quickly instead of waiting?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: scrape out, wait · To what, where: bee sting

This is test 7 of lesson 6 «Burns, sunburn and stings» of the medicine 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	2 scrape	advmod
2	scrape	scrape	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sting	det
4	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sting	compound
5	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scrape	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	2 scrape	compound:prt
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 scrape	advmod
8	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	10 waiting	mark
9	of	of	ADP	_	8 instead	fixed
10	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 scrape	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 scrape	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scrape out	imperative	you not said here	a bee sting				quickly property	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sting=Patient
2	wait	gerund	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

It grows longer and deeper each minute

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 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 grows	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 deeper	cc
5	deeper	deep	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 longer	conj
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 minute	det
7	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	It				minute	long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The bee comes back for it and stings again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bee	det
2	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 comes	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 comes	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stings	cc
8	stings	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 comes	conj
9	again	again	ADV	_	8 stings	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	present	the bee					for it	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sting	present	the bee not said here				again		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The venom sac keeps pumping while it stays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sac	det
2	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sac	compound
3	sac	sac	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	nsubj
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	pumping	pump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keeps	xcomp
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 stays	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stays	nsubj
8	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 keeps	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	keep	present	the venom sac	tree rules
2	pump	gerund	the venom sac not said here	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
3	stay	present	sac	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It will fly away by itself

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 fly	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 fly	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 itself	case
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	future	It					by itself = it; away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by itself=Location

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