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title: In a fizzy drink advert polar bears sip cola on the ice. What is real? — The polar zone: polar bears · tree and pragmatics
description: In a fizzy drink advert polar bears sip cola on the ice. What is real? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 105 «The polar zone: polar bears» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 1 · ★ · The polar zone: polar bears

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In a fizzy drink advert polar bears sip cola on the ice. What is real?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** polar bears · **What happens:** sip, be · **To what, where:** cola, fizzy drink advert

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 105 «The polar zone: polar bears» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a fizzy drink advert polar bears sip cola on the ice.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears:t1:1
# text = In a fizzy drink advert polar bears sip cola on the ice.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	advert	advert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sip	sip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	cola	cola	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sip** | present | polar bears | cola |  | a fizzy drink advert |  | on the ice | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cola=Patient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is real?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears:t1:2
# text = What is real?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Polar bears drink seawater like whales

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears:t1:o1:1
# text = Polar bears drink seawater like whales
1	Polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	seawater	seawater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	whales	whale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | present | Polar bears | seawater |  |  |  | like whales | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seawater=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Polar bears drink very little and get water from seal fat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears:t1:o2:1
# text = Polar bears drink very little and get water from seal fat
1	Polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	seal	seal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | present | Polar bears | little |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | infinitive | Polar bears *not said here* | water |  | seal fat |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from fat=Source |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Polar bears drink lots of fresh water from the lakes every day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears:t1:o3:1
# text = Polar bears drink lots of fresh water from the lakes every day
1	Polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | present | Polar bears | lots of fresh water |  | the lakes | day |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Polar bears need sweet drinks for energy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears:t1:o4:1
# text = Polar bears need sweet drinks for energy
1	Polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | Polar bears | sweet drinks |  |  |  | for energy | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot drink=Theme |

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**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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