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title: What would happen if you hit a wasps' nest with a stick? — Bees, wasps and stings · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if you hit a wasps' nest with a stick? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 24 «Bees, wasps and stings» of the everyday 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 6 · ★ · Bees, wasps and stings

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What would happen if you hit a wasps' nest with a stick?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** happen, hit · **To what, where:** nest

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 24 «Bees, wasps and stings» of the everyday 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/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:24-bees-and-wasps:t6:1
# text = What would happen if you hit a wasps' nest with a stick?
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	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hit	hit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wasps	wasp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hit** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | a wasps's nest |  |  |  | with a stick | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent nest=Patient with stick=Instrument |

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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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Many wasps would come out to defend it and sting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:24-bees-and-wasps:t6:o1:1
# text = Many wasps would come out to defend it and sting
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	wasps	wasp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	defend	defend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | would | Many wasps |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **defend** | to-infinitive | Many wasps *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing, wasps cannot sense it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:24-bees-and-wasps:t6:o2:1
# text = Nothing, wasps cannot sense it
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	wasps	wasp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	sense	sense	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **sense** | can | Nothing wasps | it |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The wasps would all fly away for good and never come back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:24-bees-and-wasps:t6:o3:1
# text = The wasps would all fly away for good and never come back
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wasps	wasp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly away** | would | the wasps |  |  |  |  | for good; all, away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **come back** | infinitive | the wasps *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The nest would turn into honey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:24-bees-and-wasps:t6:o4:1
# text = The nest would turn into honey
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | the nest |  |  | honey |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into honey=Trajectory |

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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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