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title: Be honest, what is the bear actually guarding? — Grimm, Snow-White and Rose-Red, part 6… · tree and pragmatics
description: Be honest, what is the bear actually guarding? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 788 «Grimm, Snow-White and Rose-Red, part 64: two sisters befriend a bear and free a dwarf from a tree» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Test 7 · ★ · Grimm, Snow-White and Rose-Red, part 64: two sisters befri…

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Be honest, what is the bear actually guarding?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, bear · **What happens:** be, guard · **To what, where:** bear

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 788 «Grimm, Snow-White and Rose-Red, part 64: two sisters befriend a bear and free a dwarf from a tree» 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/788-pg2591-part64/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:788-pg2591-part64:t7:1
# text = Be honest, what is the bear actually guarding?
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	guarding	guard	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | honest *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the bear |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **guard** | gerund | the bear *not said here* |  |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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His treasures

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:788-pg2591-part64:t7:o1:1
# text = His treasures
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **treasure** |  | His *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The old well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:788-pg2591-part64:t7:o2:1
# text = The old well
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:788-pg2591-part64:t7:o3:1
# text = Gold
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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His food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:788-pg2591-part64:t7:o4:1
# text = His food
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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