Test 6 · Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world

«look that black bear is BROWN, someone named it wrong lol» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, black bear, someone · What happens: look, be, name · To what, where: bear · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 of lesson 319 «Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 BROWN	mark
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bear	amod
5	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 BROWN	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 BROWN	cop
7	BROWN	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 look	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 named	punct
9	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 named	nsubj
10	named	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 BROWN	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 named	obj
12	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 named	xcomp
13	lol	lol	INTJ	_	2 look	discourse
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 look	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	black bear		brown property	tree rules
3	name in a quote	past	someone	bear	wrong property	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	is	present			right property	tree rules

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 is a black bear that got sunburnt

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	5 bear	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bear	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bear	det
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bear	amod
5	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 got	nsubj
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bear	acl:relcl
8	sunburnt	sunburnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a black bear					tree rules
2	get	past	a black bear					sunburnt property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

It is a panda without its spots

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 panda	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 panda	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 panda	det
4	panda	panda	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	without	without	ADP	_	7 spots	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 spots	nmod:poss
7	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 panda	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a panda				without panda's spots	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It must be a grizzly, black bears are only black

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	5 grizzly	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 grizzly	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 grizzly	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 grizzly	det
5	grizzly	grizzly	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 grizzly	punct
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bears	amod
8	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 black	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 black	cop
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 black	advmod
11	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grizzly	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	must	It	a grizzly					tree rules
2	is	present	black bears	a grizzly not said here				black property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

American black bears can be black, brown, cinnamon or even white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bears	amod
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bears	amod
3	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 black	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 black	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 black	cop
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 brown	punct
8	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 black	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cinnamon	punct
10	cinnamon	cinnamon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 black	conj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 white	cc
12	even	even	ADV	_	13 white	advmod
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 black	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	can	American black bears	black property	tree rules
2	be		American black bears not said here		tree rules
3	be		American black bears not said here		tree rules

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