Test 12 · ★★★ · Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bea…

«bears are basically giant meat-eating monsters right» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bears, giant eating monsters · What happens: eat, be · To what, where: giant eating monsters

This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 320 «Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bear safety» 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	_	9 monsters	punct
2	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 monsters	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 monsters	cop
4	basically	basically	ADV	_	9 monsters	advmod
5	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 monsters	amod
6	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eating	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 meat	punct
8	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 monsters	amod
9	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 true	nsubj
10	right	right	ADV	_	14 true	advmod
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 right	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 true	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 true	cop
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	gerund				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	bears	giant eating monsters	basically property	tree rules
3	is	present	giant eating monsters		right, true 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

Yes, but only at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 night	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 night	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 night	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

No, bears eat only honey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 eat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 honey	advmod
6	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	bears	honey					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, all bears eat only meat, and they hunt every single day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 eat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 bears	det
4	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	nsubj
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 meat	advmod
7	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hunt	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hunt	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hunt	nsubj
11	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	conj
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
13	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 day	amod
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hunt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	all bears	meat					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
2	hunt	present	bears = bear				day		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Most bears eat mostly plants; only the polar bear eats mostly meat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 bears	amod
2	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	5 plants	advmod
5	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct
7	only	only	ADV	_	10 bear	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bear	det
9	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bear	amod
10	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eats	nsubj
11	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	conj
12	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	13 meat	advmod
13	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Most bears	plants					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient
2	eat	present	the polar bear	meat					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient

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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