Test 4 · ★★★ · Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bea…

«just climb a tree if a bear comes lol easy» What is right?

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

This is test 4 · ★★★ 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 climb	punct
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 climb	advmod
3	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tree	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 climb	obj
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 comes	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bear	det
8	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comes	nsubj
9	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 climb	advcl
10	lol	lol	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 easy	advmod
11	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 comes	xcomp
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 climb	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 climb	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 climb	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	climb in a quote	imperative	you not said here	a tree		tree rules
2	come a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	a bear		easy property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	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

Yes, but only on the highest branch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 branch	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 branch	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 branch	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 branch	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 branch	det
7	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 branch	amod
8	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Yes, bears cannot see up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 see	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 see	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 see	advmod
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 see	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see up	can	bears						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, no bear can climb at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 climb	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 bear	det
4	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 climb	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 climb	aux
6	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 climb	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	can	no bear			all			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Not safe; black bears climb very well and young brown bears can too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 climb	advmod
2	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bears	amod
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 safe	punct
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bears	amod
5	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 climb	nsubj
6	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 well	advmod
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 climb	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 can	cc
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bears	amod
11	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bears	amod
12	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 can	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 climb	advcl
14	too	too	ADV	_	13 can	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not climb	present	safe black bears					well property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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