---
title: Why'd the fox reckon the bear couldn't handle the job? — Far North tales, The Fox and the Bear:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why'd the fox reckon the bear couldn't handle the job? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1243 «Far North tales, The Fox and the Bear: the fox tricks the bear into a fire, then cheats a Lapp of his reindeer.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1243-pg3282-part44/t5/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Far North tales, The Fox and the Bear:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1243-pg3282-part44/) / t5

# Test 5 · ★ · Far North tales, The Fox and the Bear: the fox tricks the…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Why'd the fox reckon the bear couldn't handle the job?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** fox, bear · **What happens:** reckon, not handle · **To what, where:** job

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1243 «Far North tales, The Fox and the Bear: the fox tricks the bear into a fire, then cheats a Lapp of his reindeer.» of the books 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/books/1243-pg3282-part44/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1243-pg3282-part44:t5:1
# text = Why'd the fox reckon the bear couldn't handle the job?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	handle	handle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | would | the fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **handle** | could | the bear | the job |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He can't stand pain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1243-pg3282-part44:t5:o1:1
# text = He can't stand pain
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stand** | can | He | pain |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pain=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He's too big

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1243-pg3282-part44:t5:o2:1
# text = He's too big
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | He |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He's scared of the fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1243-pg3282-part44:t5:o3:1
# text = He's scared of the fire
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | He |  |  |  |  | of the fire; scared *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He's too slow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1243-pg3282-part44:t5:o4:1
# text = He's too slow
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | He |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | tree rules |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Far North tales, The Fox and the Bear:…, test 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1243-pg3282-part44/t4/)
- next →: [Far North tales, The Fox and the Bear:…, test 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1243-pg3282-part44/t6/)
- ↑ back to [Far North tales, The Fox and the Bear: the fox tricks the bear into a fire, then cheats a Lapp of his reindeer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1243-pg3282-part44/)