Exam question 3 · Wild animals: keep away, never feed

Identify the principal reason for which hikers in bear country are advised to make noise.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, advise, make · To what, where: principal reason, hikers, noise

This is exam question 3 of lesson 26 «Wild animals: keep away, never feed» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 advised	obl
7	hikers	hiker	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 advised	nsubj:pass
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 country	case
9	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 country	compound
10	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hikers	nmod
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 advised	aux:pass
12	advised	advise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 make	mark
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 advised	advcl
15	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 make	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	advise speech: other	present · passive		hikers in bear country	for the principal reason	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	make	to-infinitive		noise		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product

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 · ✓ the right answer

So that bears hear their approach and move away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 hear	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 hear	mark
3	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hear	nsubj
4	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 approach	nmod:poss
6	approach	approach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hear	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 move	cc
8	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hear	conj
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 move	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	present	bears	bears's approach		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer approach=Stimulus
2	move away	infinitive	bears not said here		away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	approach		bears = bear			nom approach «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

So that other hikers may locate the bears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 locate	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 locate	mark
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hikers	amod
4	hikers	hiker	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 locate	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 locate	aux
6	locate	locate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bears	det
8	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 locate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	locate	may	other hikers	the bears					tree rules

Option 3

So that bears become accustomed to people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 accustomed	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 become	mark
3	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	nsubj
4	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 accustomed	aux:pass
5	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 people	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 accustomed	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accustom	present · passive	people						tree rules

Option 4

So that bears are attracted to observe them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 attracted	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 attracted	mark
3	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 attracted	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 attracted	aux:pass
5	attracted	attract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 observe	mark
7	observe	observe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 attracted	advcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 observe	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attract	present · passive		bears					vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	observe	to-infinitive		bears = bear					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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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