Test 5 · ★ · Sleep and hibernation

How can a mother bear feed her cubs when she has not eaten for months?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mother bear, bear · What happens: fee, not eat · To what, where: cubs

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 55 «Sleep and hibernation» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 feed	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 feed	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bear	det
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bear	compound
5	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feed	nsubj
6	feed	fee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cubs	nmod:poss
8	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 feed	obj
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 eaten	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 eaten	nsubj
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 eaten	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 eaten	advmod
13	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 feed	advcl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 months	case
15	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 eaten	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 feed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fee	can	a mother bear	bear's cubs					tree rules
2	not eat	present · perfect	bear				month		vn eat-39.1-1 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She catches fish in her sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 catches	nsubj
2	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 catches	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sleep	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sleep	nmod:poss
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 catches	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	present	She	fish		her sleep			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
2	sleep		her = she						nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

The cubs bring her food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cubs	det
2	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bring	nsubj
3	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bring	obj
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	present	the cubs	food	her = she				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination food=Theme

Option 3

The cubs do not need food till spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cubs	det
2	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 need	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 need	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 need	advmod
5	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	obj
7	till	till	ADP	_	8 spring	case
8	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present · do-support	the cubs	food			spring		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She makes milk from her stored fat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 fat	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 fat	nmod:poss
6	stored	store	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 fat	amod
7	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	She	milk		her stored fat			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent milk=Product from fat=Material
2	store	participle							vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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