Test 8 · ★ · Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo…

Campers in Colorado meet a bear on the path. Which plan is safest?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Campers, plan · What happens: meet, be · To what, where: bear, path

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 287 «Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals» of the everyday 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: Campers in Colorado meet a bear on the path.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Campers	camper	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 meet	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Colorado	case
3	Colorado	Colorado	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Campers	nmod
4	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bear	det
6	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meet	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 path	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 path	det
9	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meet	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 meet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	present	Campers in Colorado	a bear		the path			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Co-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: Which plan is safest?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 plan	det
2	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 safest	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 safest	cop
4	safest	safe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 safest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which plan					safe property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Scatter in all directions and run, so the bear can't choose who to chase

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scatter	scatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 directions	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 directions	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 directions	det
4	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 run	cc
6	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 directions	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 choose	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	13 choose	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bear	det
10	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 choose	nsubj
11	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 choose	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 choose	advmod
13	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 directions	appos
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 chase	nsubj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 chase	mark
16	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 choose	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	run	present		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not choose	can	the bear	tree rules
3	chase	to-infinitive		vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Offer the bear their sandwiches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bear	det
3	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Offer	obj
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 sandwiches	nmod:poss
5	sandwiches	sandwich	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Offer	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	imperative	you not said here	the bear					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent bear=Goal sandwich=Theme

Option 3

Climb onto the bear's path to look big

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	onto	onto	ADP	_	6 path	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bear	det
4	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 path	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 bear	case
6	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Climb	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 look	mark
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Climb	advcl
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	imperative	you not said here			the bear's path			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto path=Trajectory
2	look	to-infinitive	you not said here					big property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Keep together, talk calmly and slowly back away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	together	together	ADV	_	1 Keep	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 talk	punct
4	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	advcl
5	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	4 talk	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 back	cc
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	8 back	advmod
8	back	back	ADV	_	5 calmly	conj
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 back	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep together	imperative	you not said here					together property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	talk	present	you not said here					calmly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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