Exam question 3 · Bears

Identify the principal reason for which visitors to bear habitats are enjoined never to provide food to bears.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, bear, enjoin, not provide · To what, where: principal reason, habitats, visitors, food, bears

This is exam question 3 of lesson 23 «Bears» of the biology 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 enjoined	obl
7	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 enjoined	nsubj:pass
8	to	to	PART	_	9 bear	mark
9	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 visitors	acl
10	habitats	habitat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bear	obj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 enjoined	aux:pass
12	enjoined	enjoin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 provide	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 provide	mark
15	provide	provide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 enjoined	advcl
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 provide	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 bears	case
18	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 provide	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	bear	to-infinitive		habitats			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent habitat=Patient
3	enjoin	present · passive		visitors		for the principal reason	tree rules
4	not provide	to-infinitive		food	bears		vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent food=Theme to bear=Recipient

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Bears habituated to human food frequently become dangerous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 become	nsubj
2	habituated	habituate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Bears	acl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 food	case
4	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 habituated	obl
6	frequently	frequently	ADV	_	7 become	advmod
7	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	habituate	participle		Bears not said here				to human food	tree rules
2	become	present	Bears					dangerous, frequently property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Bears are unable to digest any food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 unable	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 unable	cop
3	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 digest	mark
5	digest	digest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 unable	xcomp
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 food	det
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 digest	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Bears					unable property	tree rules
2	digest	to-infinitive	Bears not said here	any food					tree rules

Option 3

Human food is too costly for the park authorities to provide in quantity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 food	amod
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 costly	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 costly	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 costly	advmod
5	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 provide	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 authorities	det
8	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 authorities	compound
9	authorities	authority	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 provide	nsubj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 provide	mark
11	provide	provide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 costly	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 quantity	case
13	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 provide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Human food					costly property	tree rules
2	provide	to-infinitive	the park authorities			quantity			vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition

Option 4

Bears so fed cease to hibernate entirely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 fed	advmod
3	fed	fed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cease	amod
4	cease	cease	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bears	conj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hibernate	mark
6	hibernate	hibernate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Bears	acl
7	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	6 hibernate	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hibernate	to-infinitive						entirely property	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location

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