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Test 9 · ★★★ · Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bea…

A bear stands up on two legs and sniffs. What is it most likely doing?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bear · What happens: stand up, sniff, be · To what, where: two legs

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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 bear stands up on two legs and sniffs.

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	3 stands	nsubj
3	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 stands	compound:prt
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 legs	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 legs	nummod
7	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stands	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sniffs	cc
9	sniffs	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stands	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stands	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand up	present	a bear			two legs			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location
2	sniff	present	a bear not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 is it most likely doing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 doing	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 doing	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 doing	nsubj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 doing	advmod
5	likely	likely	ADV	_	6 doing	advmod
6	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	bear					do, likely property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Getting ready to dance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Getting	xcomp
3	to	to	PART	_	4 dance	mark
4	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ready	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	gerund						ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	dance	to-infinitive							vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Getting a better look and smell of what is around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 around	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 look	det
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 look	amod
4	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Getting	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 smell	cc
6	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 what	case
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 smell	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 around	cop
10	around	around	ADV	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	gerund		a better look and smell of a better look and smell of a better look					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer look=Stimulus
2	is	present	Getting					around property	tree rules
3	smell		a better look and smell of a better look and smell						nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Trying to stand like a person for fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 stand	mark
3	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Trying	xcomp
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 person	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stand	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 fun	case
8	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	gerund							vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	stand not said to happen	to-infinitive						like a person; for fun	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for fun=Attribute

Option 4

Showing that it is about to attack for sure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 about	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 about	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 about	cop
5	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Showing	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 attack	mark
7	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 about	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 sure	case
9	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 attack	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	gerund							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it					about property	tree rules
3	attack	to-infinitive						for sure	vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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