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title: A family in Colorado leaves sweets and crisps in their tent at a cam… — Respecting wild animals · tree and pragmatics
description: A family in Colorado leaves sweets and crisps in their tent at a campsite in bear country. What is the danger? Test 1 · ★★ of lesson 70 «Respecting wild 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 1 · ★★ · Respecting wild animals

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A family in Colorado leaves sweets and crisps in their tent at a campsite in bear country. What is the danger?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** family, danger · **What happens:** leave, be · **To what, where:** sweets, tent

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This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 70 «Respecting wild 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/70-respecting-wild-animals/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A family in Colorado leaves sweets and crisps in their tent at a campsite in bear country.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:70-respecting-wild-animals:t1:1
# text = A family in Colorado leaves sweets and crisps in their tent at a campsite in bear country.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Colorado	Colorado	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	crisps	crisp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	campsite	campsite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | present | a family in Colorado | sweets and crisps |  | crisps's tent |  | at a campsite in bear country | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme in tent=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is the danger?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:70-respecting-wild-animals:t1:2
# text = What is the danger?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the danger |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Nothing, because bears are always scared of tents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:70-respecting-wild-animals:t1:o1:1
# text = Nothing, because bears are always scared of tents
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	tents	tent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | bears |  |  |  |  | of tents; always, scared *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Raccoons only like sweets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:70-respecting-wild-animals:t1:o2:1
# text = Raccoons only like sweets
1	Raccoons	raccoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The sweets will melt in the warm tent and make a mess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:70-respecting-wild-animals:t1:o3:1
# text = The sweets will melt in the warm tent and make a mess
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	melt	melt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mess	mess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **melt** | future | the sweets |  |  | the warm tent |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive | the sweets *not said here* | a mess |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mess=Product |

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

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A bear may come to the tent because of the food smell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:70-respecting-wild-animals:t1:o4:1
# text = A bear may come to the tent because of the food smell
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | may | a bear |  |  | the tent |  | because the food smell | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to tent=Initial\_Location |

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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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