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title: Sick, did the bears reckon they needed to search more? — Fairy Tales, The Three Bears: the bear… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sick, did the bears reckon they needed to search more? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1915 «Fairy Tales, The Three Bears: the bears find the old woman asleep in the bed and she flees» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Three Bears: the bears find the old woman…

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Sick, did the bears reckon they needed to search more?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Sick bears, bears · **What happens:** reckon, need, search · **To what, where:** more

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1915 «Fairy Tales, The Three Bears: the bears find the old woman asleep in the bed and she flees» 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/1915-pg7277-part52/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1915-pg7277-part52:t11:1
# text = Sick, did the bears reckon they needed to search more?
1	Sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	reckon	reckon	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | present | the Sick bears |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | past | bears *= bear* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **search** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | bears *= bear* *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent more=Location |

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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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yes, so they went outside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1915-pg7277-part52:t11:o1:1
# text = yes, so they went outside
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | they |  |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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yes, so they went upstairs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1915-pg7277-part52:t11:o2:1
# text = yes, so they went upstairs
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | they |  |  |  |  | upstairs *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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yes, so they went upstairs and looked under all the beds again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1915-pg7277-part52:t11:o3:1
# text = yes, so they went upstairs and looked under all the beds again
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | they |  |  |  | again | upstairs *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | past | they *not said here* |  |  |  |  | under all beds | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent under bed=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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yes, so they went upstairs to look in every room

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1915-pg7277-part52:t11:o4:1
# text = yes, so they went upstairs to look in every room
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | they |  |  |  |  | upstairs *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | they *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in every room | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in room=Theme |

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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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