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title: «the bee's just dancing for fun, bees love a boogie» What is right? — How animals talk · tree and pragmatics
description: «the bee's just dancing for fun, bees love a boogie» What is right? Test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 50 «How animals talk» 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 right.
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# Test 9 · ★★★ · How animals talk

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«the bee's just dancing for fun, bees love a boogie» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** bee, bees, boogie · **What happens:** dance, love, be · **To what, where:** boogie

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This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 50 «How animals talk» 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/50-how-animals-talk/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:50-how-animals-talk:t9:1
# text = «the bee's just dancing for fun, bees love a boogie» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	boogie	boogie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** *in a quote* | gerund | the bee |  |  |  |  | for fun | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **love** *in a quote* | present | bees | a boogie |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boogie=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | a boogie |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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She is showing the way and distance to flowers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:50-how-animals-talk:t9:o1:1
# text = She is showing the way and distance to flowers
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present · progressive | She | the way and distance | flowers |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Topic to flower=Recipient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Right, bees dance to have fun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:50-how-animals-talk:t9:o2:1
# text = Right, bees dance to have fun
1	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	dance	dance	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | present | bees |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | bees *not said here* | fun |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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She is fanning to cool the hive

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:50-how-animals-talk:t9:o3:1
# text = She is fanning to cool the hive
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fanning	fan	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	cool	cool	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hive	hive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fan** | present · progressive | She |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cool** | to-infinitive | She *not said here* | the hive |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hive=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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She is fighting another bee

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:50-how-animals-talk:t9:o4:1
# text = She is fighting another bee
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | present · progressive | She | another bee |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bee=Co-Agent |

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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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