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Test 11 · ★ · The polar zone: polar bears

A polar bear walks on slippery ice without falling. How?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: polar bear · What happens: walk, fall · To what, where: slippery ice

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 105 «The polar zone: polar bears» of the biology 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.

The question

Sentence 1: A polar bear walks on slippery ice without falling.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bear	det
2	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bear	amod
3	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walks	nsubj
4	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 ice	case
6	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ice	amod
7	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walks	obl
8	without	without	SCONJ	_	9 falling	mark
9	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 walks	advcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 walks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	a polar bear			slippery ice			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ice=Trajectory
2	fall	gerund	a polar bear not said here						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: How?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 How	punct

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

The options

Option 1

It never walks on ice, only snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 walks	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 walks	advmod
3	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 ice	case
5	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walks	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 snow	punct
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 snow	advmod
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ice	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not walk	present	It			ice and snow			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ice=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Fur and small bumps on its soles grip the ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grip	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 bumps	cc
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bumps	amod
4	bumps	bump	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fur	conj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 soles	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 soles	nmod:poss
7	soles	sole	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bumps	nmod
8	grip	grip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ice	det
10	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grip	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grip	present	Fur and small bumps on its soles	the ice					vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=Experiencer

Option 3

It has metal-like claws only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 like	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 metal	punct
5	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 claws	amod
6	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
7	only	only	ADV	_	2 has	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	like claws					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Patient

Option 4

It slides on purpose and enjoys it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slides	nsubj
2	slides	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 purpose	case
4	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slides	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 enjoys	cc
6	enjoys	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 slides	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 enjoys	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide	present	It			purpose			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on purpose=Trajectory
2	enjoy	present		purpose					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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