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title: A worker bee waggles straight up on the comb. Which way are the flow… — Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and h… · tree and pragmatics
description: A worker bee waggles straight up on the comb. Which way are the flowers? Test 7 · ★★ 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 7 · ★★ · Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey

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A worker bee waggles straight up on the comb. Which way are the flowers?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** worker bee, way · **What happens:** waggle, be · **To what, where:** comb, flowers

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This is test 7 · ★★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A worker bee waggles straight up on the comb.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey:t7:1
# text = A worker bee waggles straight up on the comb.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	worker	worker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	waggles	waggle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **waggle** | present | a worker bee |  |  | the comb |  |  | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which way are the flowers?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey:t7:2
# text = Which way are the flowers?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | which way | the flowers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Away from the sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey:t7:o1:1
# text = Away from the sun
1	Away	away	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Straight down into the ground

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey:t7:o2:1
# text = Straight down into the ground
1	Straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	down	down	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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

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

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Towards the sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey:t7:o3:1
# text = Towards the sun
1	Towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Wherever the wind blows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey:t7:o4:1
# text = Wherever the wind blows
1	Wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	blows	blow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | present | the wind |  |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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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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