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title: Campers in Colorado meet a bear on the path. Which plan is safest? — Caring for pets and staying safe aroun… · tree and pragmatics
description: Campers in Colorado meet a bear on the path. Which plan is safest? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 287 «Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo…

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Campers in Colorado meet a bear on the path. Which plan is safest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Campers, plan · **What happens:** meet, be · **To what, where:** bear, path

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 287 «Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals» of the everyday 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/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Campers in Colorado meet a bear on the path.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely:t8:1
# text = Campers in Colorado meet a bear on the path.
1	Campers	camper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Colorado	Colorado	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | present | Campers in Colorado | a bear |  | the path |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Co-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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which plan is safest?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely:t8:2
# text = Which plan is safest?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	safest	safe	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | which plan |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Scatter in all directions and run, so the bear can't choose who to chase

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely:t8:o1:1
# text = Scatter in all directions and run, so the bear can't choose who to chase
1	Scatter	scatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	appos	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	chase	chase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **choose** | can | the bear |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **chase** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Offer the bear their sandwiches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely:t8:o2:1
# text = Offer the bear their sandwiches
1	Offer	offer	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	sandwiches	sandwich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | imperative | you *not said here* | the bear |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent bear=Goal sandwich=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Climb onto the bear's path to look big

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely:t8:o3:1
# text = Climb onto the bear's path to look big
1	Climb	climb	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the bear's path |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto path=Trajectory |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | big *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Keep together, talk calmly and slowly back away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely:t8:o4:1
# text = Keep together, talk calmly and slowly back away
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	together	together	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
5	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep together** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **talk** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | calmly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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