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title: In a game your bee hero is a male worker who stings enemies. What's… — Insects: six legs, three parts; ants,… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a game your bee hero is a male worker who stings enemies. What's wrong? Test 12 of lesson 36 «Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps» 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 12 · Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps

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In a game your bee hero is a male worker who stings enemies. What's wrong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bee hero, male worker · **What happens:** be, sting · **To what, where:** male worker, game, enemies

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This is test 12 of lesson 36 «Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps» 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/36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps/#t12).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a game your bee hero is a male worker who stings enemies.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps:t12:1
# text = In a game your bee hero is a male worker who stings enemies.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	male	male	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	worker	worker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	stings	sting	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | your bee hero | a male worker |  | a game |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sting** | present | a male worker | enemies |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus enemy=Experiencer |

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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:* What's wrong?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps:t12:2
# text = What's wrong?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Workers are female, and males cannot sting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps:t12:o1:1
# text = Workers are female, and males cannot sting
1	Workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	males	male	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	sting	sting	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Workers |  |  |  |  | female *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **sting** | can | males |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing, male workers sting very well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps:t12:o2:1
# text = Nothing, male workers sting very well
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	male	male	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sting	sting	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sting** | present | Nothing |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Bees never sting anything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps:t12:o3:1
# text = Bees never sting anything
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	sting	sting	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **sting** | present | Bees | anything |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus anything=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only queens can fly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps:t12:o4:1
# text = Only queens can fly
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	queens	queen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | can | queens |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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