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title: stung by a bee, finger puffing a bit — Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, bl… · tree and pragmatics
description: stung by a bee, finger puffing a bit Test 12 · ★ of lesson 326 «Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee 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 wrong.
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# Test 12 · ★ · Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, f…

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stung by a bee, finger puffing a bit

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** finger · **What happens:** sting, puff · **To what, where:** bit

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 326 «Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee 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/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants:t12:1
# text = stung by a bee, finger puffing a bit
1	stung	sting	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	puffing	puff	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sting** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **puff** | gerund | finger *not said here* | a bit |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bit=Source |

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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 {#o1}

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Put mud on it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants:t12:o1:1
# text = Put mud on it
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | mud |  | mud |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent mud=Theme on it=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Ignore it and keep playing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants:t12:o2:1
# text = Ignore it and keep playing
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ignore** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **play** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Squeeze it hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants:t12:o3:1
# text = Squeeze it hard
1	Squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **squeeze** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Scrape the sting out, cool it and tell an adult

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants:t12:o4:1
# text = Scrape the sting out, cool it and tell an adult
1	Scrape	scrape	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	cool	cool	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scrape out** | imperative | you *not said here* | the sting |  |  |  |  | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sting=Patient |
| 2 | **cool** | infinitive | you *not said here* | sting |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |

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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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