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title: Ascertain the purpose of the waggle dance performed by a honeybee. — Insects and spiders · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the purpose of the waggle dance performed by a honeybee. Exam question 4 of lesson 72 «Insects and spiders» of the world 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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# Exam question 4 · Insects and spiders

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Ascertain the purpose of the waggle dance performed by a honeybee.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, waggle dance · **What happens:** ascertain, perform, purpose · **To what, where:** purpose, waggle dance

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 72 «Insects and spiders» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/world/72-insects-and-spiders/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:72-insects-and-spiders:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the purpose of the waggle dance performed by a honeybee.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	waggle	waggle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	performed	perform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	honeybee	honeybee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the purpose of the waggle dance |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=Topic |
| 2 | **perform** | participle |  | the waggle dance *not said here* |  |  |  | by a honeybee | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **purpose** |  | the waggle dance |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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To warm the hive in winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:72-insects-and-spiders:e4:o1:1
# text = To warm the hive in winter
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	warm	warm	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hive	hive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **warm** | to-infinitive |  | the hive |  |  | winter |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hive=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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To communicate to other bees the location of flowers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:72-insects-and-spiders:e4:o2:1
# text = To communicate to other bees the location of flowers
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	communicate	communicate	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **communicate** | to-infinitive |  | the location of flowers | other bees |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent location=Topic to bee=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To choose the queen of the colony

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:72-insects-and-spiders:e4:o3:1
# text = To choose the queen of the colony
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	choose	choose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | to-infinitive |  | the queen of the colony |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To frighten away hungry birds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:72-insects-and-spiders:e4:o4:1
# text = To frighten away hungry birds
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	frighten	frighten	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frighten away** | to-infinitive |  | hungry birds |  |  |  | away *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer |

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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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