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title: Real talk, the bees stung nothing cause they were wat? — Fairy Book, The Lion Fairy, part 45: t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real talk, the bees stung nothing cause they were wat? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 1179 «Fairy Book, The Lion Fairy, part 45: the queen is taken to a gloomy palace, and frogs help her make a bee-sting pasty and build a cabin» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragm
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# Test 14 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Lion Fairy, part 45: the queen is taken to…

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Real talk, the bees stung nothing cause they were wat?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** bees · **What happens:** sting, be · **To what, where:** nothing

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1179 «Fairy Book, The Lion Fairy, part 45: the queen is taken to a gloomy palace, and frogs help her make a bee-sting pasty and build a cabin» of the books 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/books/1179-pg3027-part45/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1179-pg3027-part45:t14:1
# text = Real talk, the bees stung nothing cause they were wat?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stung	sting	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	obj	_	_
8	cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	wat	wat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sting** | past | the bees | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nothing=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | bees *= bee* |  |  |  |  | wat *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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Stupefied

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1179-pg3027-part45:t14:o1:1
# text = Stupefied
1	Stupefied	stupefy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stupefy** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Frightened

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1179-pg3027-part45:t14:o2:1
# text = Frightened
1	Frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frighten** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Stunned

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1179-pg3027-part45:t14:o3:1
# text = Stunned
1	Stunned	stun	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stun** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sleepy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1179-pg3027-part45:t14:o4:1
# text = Sleepy
1	Sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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