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title: «look that black bear is BROWN, someone named it wrong lol» What is… — Bears by kind: the eight bears of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: «look that black bear is BROWN, someone named it wrong lol» What is right? Test 6 of lesson 319 «Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world» 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 6 · Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world

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«look that black bear is BROWN, someone named it wrong lol» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, black bear, someone · **What happens:** look, be, name · **To what, where:** bear · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 of lesson 319 «Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world» 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/319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world:t6:1
# text = «look that black bear is BROWN, someone named it wrong lol» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	BROWN	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	nsubj	_	_
10	named	name	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
15	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | black bear |  |  |  |  | brown *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** *in a quote* | past | someone | bear |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It is a black bear that got sunburnt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world:t6:o1:1
# text = It is a black bear that got sunburnt
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	sunburnt	sunburnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a black bear |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | past | a black bear |  |  |  |  | sunburnt *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It is a panda without its spots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world:t6:o2:1
# text = It is a panda without its spots
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	panda	panda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a panda |  |  |  | without panda's spots | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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It must be a grizzly, black bears are only black

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world:t6:o3:1
# text = It must be a grizzly, black bears are only black
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	grizzly	grizzly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | must | It | a grizzly |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | black bears | a grizzly *not said here* |  |  |  | black *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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American black bears can be black, brown, cinnamon or even white

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world:t6:o4:1
# text = American black bears can be black, brown, cinnamon or even white
1	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	cinnamon	cinnamon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can | American black bears |  |  |  |  | black *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | American black bears *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | American black bears *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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