Test 6 · ★★★ · Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bea…
A camper leaves a cool box of sausages outside the tent. What could happen?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: camper · What happens: leave, happen · To what, where: cool box
This is test 6 · ★★★ 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
Sentence 1: A camper leaves a cool box of sausages outside the tent.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 camper | det |
| 2 | camper | camper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaves | nsubj |
| 3 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 box | det |
| 5 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 box | amod |
| 6 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaves | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sausages | case |
| 8 | sausages | sausage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 box | nmod |
| 9 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 11 tent | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tent | det |
| 11 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sausages | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leaves | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | a camper | a cool box of sausages outside the tent | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme |
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.
Sentence 2: What could happen?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | could | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A bear could smell it from far off and learn that tents mean food
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bear | det |
| 2 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 smell | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 smell | aux |
| 4 | smell | smell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 smell | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 off | case |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 off | advmod |
| 8 | off | off | ADV | _ | 4 smell | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 learn | cc |
| 10 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 smell | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 mean | mark |
| 12 | tents | tent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 mean | nsubj |
| 13 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 learn | ccomp |
| 14 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mean | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smell | could | a bear | it | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | learn | infinitive | a bear not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | tents | food | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic |
Option 2
The bear would bring berries in return
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bear | det |
| 2 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bring | aux |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bring | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 return | case |
| 7 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | would | the bear | berries | return | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent berry=Theme |
Option 3
The sausages would scare the bears away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sausages | det |
| 2 | sausages | sausage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 scare | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 scare | aux |
| 4 | scare | scare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bears | det |
| 6 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 scare | obj |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 scare | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scare away | would | the sausages | the bears | away property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bear=Experiencer |
Option 4
Nothing, bears cannot smell sausages
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 bears | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 smell | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 smell | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 smell | advmod |
| 6 | smell | smell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | sausages | sausage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 smell | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not smell | can | Nothing bears | sausages | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sausage=Stimulus |
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