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title: What would happen to polar bears if there were much less sea ice for… — Bears by kind: the eight bears of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to polar bears if there were much less sea ice for longer each year? Test 8 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 righ
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# Test 8 · Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world

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What would happen to polar bears if there were much less sea ice for longer each year?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** happen, be · **To what, where:** sea ice

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This is test 8 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world:t8:1
# text = What would happen to polar bears if there were much less sea ice for longer each year?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	much	much	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
12	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  | sea ice for each year |  |  |  | to polar bears | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | past |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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They would hunt seals much more easily from the land

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world:t8:o1:1
# text = They would hunt seals much more easily from the land
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | would | They | seals |  | the land |  | easily *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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They would swim further and go hungry longer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world:t8:o2:1
# text = They would swim further and go hungry longer
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
7	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | would | They |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hungry, long *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They would grow gills

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world:t8:o3:1
# text = They would grow gills
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	gills	gill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | They | gills |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gill=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing, they eat mainly grass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world:t8:o4:1
# text = Nothing, they eat mainly grass
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | they | grass |  |  |  | Nothing *vocative*; mainly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient |

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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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