Test 7 · Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world

«ppl said the zoo sun bear was a guy in a bear suit lmao» What did the zoo say?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: ppl, sun bear, zoo · What happens: say, be · To what, where: guy, suit lmao · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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	_	3 said	punct
2	ppl	people	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bear	det
5	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sun	compound
6	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bear	compound
7	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 guy	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 guy	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 guy	det
10	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 lmao	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lmao	det
13	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 suit	compound
14	suit	suit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lmao	compound
15	lmao	lmao	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 guy	nmod
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 lmao	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 say	obj
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 say	aux
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 zoo	det
20	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 say	nsubj
21	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 lmao	acl:relcl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	ppl			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	past	the sun bear	a guy	a suit lmao	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the zoo	a suit lmao		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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 was a robot made for visitors

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 robot	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 robot	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 robot	det
4	robot	robot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 robot	acl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 visitors	case
7	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a robot					tree rules
2	make	participle		a robot not said here				for visitors	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for visitor=Beneficiary

Option 2

It was a statue

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 statue	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 statue	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 statue	det
4	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a statue					tree rules

Option 3

It really was a man in a bear suit, there to fool the visitors

The tree, 14 words

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 man	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	5 man	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 man	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 suit	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 suit	det
8	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 suit	compound
9	suit	suit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fool	punct
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 fool	expl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 fool	mark
13	fool	fool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 man	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 visitors	det
15	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fool	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a man		a bear suit			tree rules
2	fool	to-infinitive		the visitors		there			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitor=Patient

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

It was a real sun bear standing up like a person

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	6 bear	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bear	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bear	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bear	amod
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bear	compound
6	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 bear	acl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 standing	compound:prt
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 person	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 person	det
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 standing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a real sun bear					tree rules
2	stand up	gerund	a real sun bear not said here					like a person	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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