Test 6 · Bears

What would happen to a polar bear if the sea ice melted early each year?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, melt · To what, where: sea ice

This is test 6 of lesson 23 «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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 bear	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bear	det
6	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bear	amod
7	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 ice	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ice	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ice	compound
11	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
12	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 ice	acl
13	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 melted	advmod
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 year	det
15	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 melted	obl:unmarked
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would		the sea ice				to a polar bear	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	melt	participle		the sea ice not said here			year	early property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

It would simply switch to eating bamboo instead

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	4 switch	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 switch	aux
3	simply	simply	ADV	_	4 switch	advmod
4	switch	switch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 eating	mark
6	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 switch	advcl
7	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eating	obj
8	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 switch	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	switch	would	It					instead, simply property	vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	eat	to-infinitive		bamboo					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bamboo=Patient

Option 2

It would catch more seals than ever before

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 catch	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 catch	aux
3	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 seals	amod
5	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 catch	obj
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 ever	case
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 catch	obl
8	before	before	ADV	_	3 catch	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	would	It	more seals				before property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Theme

Option 3

Nothing, polar bears hunt only on land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 hunt	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bears	amod
4	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hunt	nsubj
5	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 land	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 land	case
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hunt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	Nothing	land					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It would have less time to hunt seals

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 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hunt	mark
7	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 time	acl
8	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hunt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	It				time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	hunt	to-infinitive		seals					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Theme

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