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description: «ppl said the zoo sun bear was a guy in a bear suit lmao» What did the zoo say? Test 7 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 right.
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# Test 7 · Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world

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«ppl said the zoo sun bear was a guy in a bear suit lmao» What did the zoo say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ppl, sun bear, zoo · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** guy, suit lmao · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world:t7:1
# text = «ppl said the zoo sun bear was a guy in a bear suit lmao» What did the zoo say?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	ppl	people	NOUN	NNS	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	suit	suit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	lmao	lmao	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	obj	_	_
18	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | ppl |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | the sun bear | a guy |  | a suit lmao |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the zoo | a suit lmao |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It was a robot made for visitors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world:t7:o1:1
# text = It was a robot made for visitors
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	robot	robot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | It | a robot |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | a robot *not said here* |  |  |  | for visitors | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for visitor=Beneficiary |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It was a statue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world:t7:o2:1
# text = It was a statue
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | It | a statue |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It really was a man in a bear suit, there to fool the visitors

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world:t7:o3:1
# text = It really was a man in a bear suit, there to fool the visitors
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	suit	suit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	fool	fool	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | It | a man |  | a bear suit |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fool** | to-infinitive |  | the visitors |  | there |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitor=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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It was a real sun bear standing up like a person

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world:t7:o4:1
# text = It was a real sun bear standing up like a person
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | It | a real sun bear |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand up** | gerund | a real sun bear *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a person | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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