Test 3 · ★★★ · Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bea…

«bears hibernate same as dormice yeah, totally out cold» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bears · What happens: hibernate, be · To what, where: same

This is test 3 · ★★★ 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	_	3 hibernate	punct
2	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hibernate	nsubj
3	hibernate	hibernate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hibernate	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 dormice	case
6	dormice	dormouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hibernate	obl
7	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 hibernate	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cold	punct
9	totally	totally	ADV	_	11 cold	advmod
10	out	out	ADV	_	11 cold	advmod
11	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hibernate	parataxis
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 cold	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 true	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 true	cop
15	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cold	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hibernate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hibernate in a quote	present	bears	same				as dormice	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location same=Value
2	is	present						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, bears go stone cold and freeze solid until the spring comes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obj
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 go	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 freeze	cc
8	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
9	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 freeze	xcomp
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 comes	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 spring	det
12	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 comes	nsubj
13	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 freeze	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	present	bears	stone	cold property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stone=Theme
2	freeze	infinitive	bears not said here		solid property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	come	present	the spring			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

No, bears never sleep in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 bears	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sleep	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 sleep	advmod
5	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 winter	case
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sleep	present	bears				winter		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, a bear's body cools only a few degrees and it can wake fast

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 cools	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bear	det
4	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 body	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 bear	case
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cools	nsubj
7	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	only	only	ADV	_	11 degrees	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 degrees	det
10	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 degrees	amod
11	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cools	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wake	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wake	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 wake	aux
15	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cools	conj
16	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 wake	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool	present	a bear's body	a few degrees					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	wake	can	body					fast property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Yes, nothing could wake a bear in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 wake	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 wake	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 wake	aux
5	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bear	det
7	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wake	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 winter	case
9	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wake	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	could	nothing	a bear			winter		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bear=Patient

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