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title: What would happen if a hive had no flowers to visit all summer? — Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and h… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a hive had no flowers to visit all summer? Test 5 · ★★ of lesson 239 «Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey» 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 5 · ★★ · Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey

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What would happen if a hive had no flowers to visit all summer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** hive, flowers · **What happens:** happen, have, visit · **To what, where:** flowers

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This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 239 «Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey» 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/239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey:t5:1
# text = What would happen if a hive had no flowers to visit all summer?
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	hive	hive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	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 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a hive | no flowers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **visit** | to-infinitive | no flowers *not said here* |  |  |  | summer |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#o1}

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Nothing, bees eat leaves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey:t5:o1:1
# text = Nothing, bees eat leaves
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | bees | leaves |  |  |  | Nothing *vocative* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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It would make its honey from rain water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey:t5:o2:1
# text = It would make its honey from rain water
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | would | It | its honey |  | rain water |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset honey=Product from water=Material |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It would have no honey to eat in winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey:t5:o3:1
# text = It would have no honey to eat in winter
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | It | no honey |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  | no honey *not said here* |  |  | winter |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The bees would hibernate in summer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey:t5:o4:1
# text = The bees would hibernate in summer
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	hibernate	hibernate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hibernate** | would | the bees |  |  |  | summer |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |

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**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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