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title: How can a mother bear feed her cubs when she has not eaten for months? — Sleep and hibernation · tree and pragmatics
description: How can a mother bear feed her cubs when she has not eaten for months? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 55 «Sleep and hibernation» 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 5 · ★ · Sleep and hibernation

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How can a mother bear feed her cubs when she has not eaten for months?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mother bear, bear · **What happens:** fee, not eat · **To what, where:** cubs

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 55 «Sleep and hibernation» 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/55-sleep-and-hibernation/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:55-sleep-and-hibernation:t5:1
# text = How can a mother bear feed her cubs when she has not eaten for months?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	feed	fee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	cubs	cub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fee** | can | a mother bear | bear's cubs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **eat** | present · perfect | bear |  |  |  | month |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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She catches fish in her sleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:55-sleep-and-hibernation:t5:o1:1
# text = She catches fish in her sleep
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	catches	catch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | present | She | fish |  | her sleep |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
| 2 | **sleep** |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The cubs bring her food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:55-sleep-and-hibernation:t5:o2:1
# text = The cubs bring her food
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cubs	cub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present | the cubs | food | her *= she* |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination food=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The cubs do not need food till spring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:55-sleep-and-hibernation:t5:o3:1
# text = The cubs do not need food till spring
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cubs	cub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	till	till	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **need** | present · do-support | the cubs | food |  |  | spring |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme |

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

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She makes milk from her stored fat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:55-sleep-and-hibernation:t5:o4:1
# text = She makes milk from her stored fat
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	stored	store	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | She | milk |  | her stored fat |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent milk=Product from fat=Material |
| 2 | **store** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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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