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description: What would happen if a farmer sprayed a field of flowers with a strong bug poison? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 218 «Bees and wasps in the garden» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 10 · ★ · Bees and wasps in the garden

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What would happen if a farmer sprayed a field of flowers with a strong bug poison?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** farmer · **What happens:** happen, spray · **To what, where:** field

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 218 «Bees and wasps in the garden» of the biology 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden:t10:1
# text = What would happen if a farmer sprayed a field of flowers with a strong bug poison?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sprayed	spray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	bug	bug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **spray** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a farmer | a field of flowers |  |  |  | with a strong bug poison | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent field=Destination with poison=Theme |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Bees would make more honey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden:t10:o1:1
# text = Bees would make more honey
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | would | Bees | more honey |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Product |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Bees visiting the flowers could get ill and die

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden:t10:o2:1
# text = Bees visiting the flowers could get ill and die
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	visiting	visit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | gerund | Bees *not said here* | the flowers |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **get** | could | Bees |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **die** | present | Bees *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing, because bug poison only hurts the bugs that eat crops

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden:t10:o3:1
# text = Nothing, because bug poison only hurts the bugs that eat crops
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	5	case	_	_
4	bug	bug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bugs	bug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | present | Nothing | the bugs |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bug=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | present | the bugs | crops |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Bees would grow bigger stings to fight back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden:t10:o4:1
# text = Bees would grow bigger stings to fight back
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	stings	sting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | Bees | bigger stings |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sting=Theme |
| 2 | **fight back** | to-infinitive | Bees *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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