Test 5 · ★★★ · Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bea…

«ranger said 'a fed bear is a dead bear', thats harsh» Why do rangers say it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: ranger, fed bear, rangers · What happens: say, be · To what, where: dead bear, bear · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★★ 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 said	punct
2	ranger	ranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 bear	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bear	det
6	fed	fed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bear	amod
7	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bear	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 bear	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bear	det
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bear	amod
11	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thats	compound
12	',	',	PART	_	11 bear	dep
13	thats	that	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 harsh	nsubj
14	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 harsh	punct
16	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	19 say	advmod
17	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 say	aux
18	rangers	ranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 say	nsubj
19	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 say	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	ranger		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	a fed bear	a dead bear	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present · do-support	rangers	bear	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=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

Rangers do not like bears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rangers	ranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 like	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 like	advmod
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 like	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like	present · do-support	Rangers	bears					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bear=Theme

Option 2

Fed bears get too fat to live

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bears	amod
2	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 fat	advmod
5	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 live	mark
7	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fat	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	feed	participle			vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
2	get	present	Fed bears	fat property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	live	to-infinitive	Fed bears not said here		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Bears fed by people become dangerous and are often moved or killed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 become	nsubj
2	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Bears	acl
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 people	case
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fed	obl:agent
5	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 become	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 moved	cc
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 moved	aux:pass
9	often	often	ADV	_	10 moved	advmod
10	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 become	conj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 killed	cc
12	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 moved	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feed	participle		Bears not said here		vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
2	become	present	Bears		dangerous property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	move	present · passive	Bears not said here		often property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»
4	kill	participle	Bears not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Food from people is poisonous to bears and they die soon after eating it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poisonous	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 people	case
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Food	nmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 poisonous	cop
5	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 bears	case
7	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 poisonous	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 die	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 die	nsubj
10	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 poisonous	conj
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 die	advmod
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 eating	mark
13	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 die	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Food from people		to bears; poisonous property	tree rules
2	die	present	bears = bear		soon property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	eat	gerund	bears = bear not said here	Food		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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