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title: What would happen to many hives if beekeepers stopped caring for the… — Honey and the beekeeper's year · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to many hives if beekeepers stopped caring for them against varroa mites? Test 10 of lesson 344 «Honey and the beekeeper's year» 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 · Honey and the beekeeper's year

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What would happen to many hives if beekeepers stopped caring for them against varroa mites?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** beekeepers · **What happens:** happen, stop, care

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This is test 10 of lesson 344 «Honey and the beekeeper's year» 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/344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year:t10:1
# text = What would happen to many hives if beekeepers stopped caring for them against varroa mites?
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	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hives	hive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	beekeepers	beekeeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	caring	care	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	against	against	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	varroa	varroa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	mites	mite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | to many hives | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | beekeepers |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **care** | gerund | beekeepers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for beekeepers *= beekeeper*; against varroa mites | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for they=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 {#o1}

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Nothing, mites only bite people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year:t10:o1:1
# text = Nothing, mites only bite people
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	mites	mite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	bite	bite	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** | present | Nothing mites | people |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |

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

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Many would sicken and die

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year:t10:o2:1
# text = Many would sicken and die
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sicken	sicken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sicken** | would | Many |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **die** | infinitive | Many *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The mites would make honey instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year:t10:o3:1
# text = The mites would make honey instead
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mites	mite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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The bees would make more honey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year:t10:o4:1
# text = The bees would make more honey
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	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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

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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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