--- title: Ascertain the approximate number to which honeybees have been shown… — Surprising brains: tool-using fish, co… · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the approximate number to which honeybees have been shown to count landmarks under experimental conditions. Exam question 2 of lesson 388 «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / [Surprising brains: tool-using fish, co…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughin… Ascertain the approximate number to which honeybees have been shown to count landmarks under experimental conditions. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, show, count · **To what, where:** approximate number, honeybees, landmarks, experimental conditions This is exam question 2 of lesson 388 «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs:e2:1 # text = Ascertain the approximate number to which honeybees have been shown to count landmarks under experimental conditions. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 approximate approximate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 obl _ _ 7 honeybees honeybee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 shown show VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl:relcl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 count count VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 landmarks landmark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 under under ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 experimental experimental ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 conditions condition NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the approximate number | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | | 2 | **show** | present · perfect · passive | | honeybees | | | | to the approximate number | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **count** | to-infinitive | | landmarks | | experimental conditions | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent landmark=Theme | 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} Forty ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs:e2:o1:1 # text = Forty 1 Forty forty NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Four ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs:e2:o2:1 # text = Four 1 Four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Only one ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs:e2:o3:1 # text = Only one 1 Only only ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} One hundred ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs:e2:o4:1 # text = One hundred 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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