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title: Why scrape a bee sting out quickly instead of waiting? — Burns, sunburn and stings · tree and pragmatics
description: Why scrape a bee sting out quickly instead of waiting? Test 7 of lesson 6 «Burns, sunburn and stings» of the medicine 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 7 · Burns, sunburn and stings

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Why scrape a bee sting out quickly instead of waiting?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** scrape out, wait · **To what, where:** bee sting

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This is test 7 of lesson 6 «Burns, sunburn and stings» of the medicine 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/medicine/6-burns-sunburn-and-stings/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:6-burns-sunburn-and-stings:t7:1
# text = Why scrape a bee sting out quickly instead of waiting?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	scrape	scrape	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
8	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	10	mark	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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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* | a bee sting |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sting=Patient |
| 2 | **wait** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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It grows longer and deeper each minute

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:6-burns-sunburn-and-stings:t7:o1:1
# text = It grows longer and deeper each minute
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	deeper	deep	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | It |  |  |  | minute | long *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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The bee comes back for it and stings again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:6-burns-sunburn-and-stings:t7:o2:1
# text = The bee comes back for it and stings again
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	stings	sting	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | present | the bee |  |  |  |  | for it | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sting** | present | the bee *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The venom sac keeps pumping while it stays

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:6-burns-sunburn-and-stings:t7:o3:1
# text = The venom sac keeps pumping while it stays
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	venom	venom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sac	sac	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	pumping	pump	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | the venom sac |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pump** | gerund | the venom sac *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stay** | present | sac |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It will fly away by itself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:6-burns-sunburn-and-stings:t7:o4:1
# text = It will fly away by itself
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly away** | future | It |  |  |  |  | by itself *= it*; away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by itself=Location |

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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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