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title: «bears are basically giant meat-eating monsters right» What is true? — Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, th… · tree and pragmatics
description: «bears are basically giant meat-eating monsters right» What is true? Test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 320 «Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bear safety» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 12 · ★★★ · Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bea…

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«bears are basically giant meat-eating monsters right» What is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bears, giant eating monsters · **What happens:** eat, be · **To what, where:** giant eating monsters

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This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 320 «Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bear safety» 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/320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety:t12:1
# text = «bears are basically giant meat-eating monsters right» What is true?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
4	basically	basically	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
5	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
6	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	monsters	monster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
10	right	right	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | bears | giant eating monsters |  |  |  | basically *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | giant eating monsters |  |  |  |  | right, true *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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, but only at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety:t12:o1:1
# text = Yes, but only at night
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, bears eat only honey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety:t12:o2:1
# text = No, bears eat only honey
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	honey	honey	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 | bears | honey |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, all bears eat only meat, and they hunt every single day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety:t12:o3:1
# text = Yes, all bears eat only meat, and they hunt every single day
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
13	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | all bears | meat |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient |
| 2 | **hunt** | present | bears *= bear* |  |  |  | day |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Most bears eat mostly plants; only the polar bear eats mostly meat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety:t12:o4:1
# text = Most bears eat mostly plants; only the polar bear eats mostly meat
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Most bears | plants |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | present | the polar bear | meat |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=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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