Test 1 · ★★ · Respecting wild animals
A family in Colorado leaves sweets and crisps in their tent at a campsite in bear country. What is the danger?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: family, danger · What happens: leave, be · To what, where: sweets, tent
This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 70 «Respecting wild 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: A family in Colorado leaves sweets and crisps in their tent at a campsite in bear country.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 family | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leaves | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Colorado | case |
| 4 | Colorado | Colorado | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 family | nmod |
| 5 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 leaves | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 crisps | cc |
| 8 | crisps | crisp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sweets | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 tent | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 tent | nmod:poss |
| 11 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leaves | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 campsite | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 campsite | det |
| 14 | campsite | campsite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leaves | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 country | case |
| 16 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 country | compound |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 campsite | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 leaves | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | a family in Colorado | sweets and crisps | crisps's tent | at a campsite in bear country | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme in tent=Location |
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 the danger?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 danger | det |
| 4 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the danger | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Nothing, because bears are always scared of tents
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 scared | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 scared | mark |
| 4 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 scared | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 scared | cop |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 scared | advmod |
| 7 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Nothing | amod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tents | case |
| 9 | tents | tent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 scared | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | bears | of tents; always, scared property | tree rules |
Option 2
Raccoons only like sweets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Raccoons | raccoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 sweets | advmod |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 sweets | case |
| 4 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Raccoons | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The sweets will melt in the warm tent and make a mess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sweets | det |
| 2 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 melt | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 melt | aux |
| 4 | melt | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 tent | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tent | det |
| 7 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tent | amod |
| 8 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 melt | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 make | cc |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 melt | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mess | det |
| 12 | mess | mess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt | future | the sweets | the warm tent | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | the sweets not said here | a mess | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mess=Product |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A bear may come to the tent because of the food smell
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 come | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 tent | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tent | det |
| 7 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 8 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 12 smell | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 because | fixed |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 smell | det |
| 11 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 smell | compound |
| 12 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | may | a bear | the tent | because the food smell | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tent=Initial_Location |
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