Test 9 · ★ · The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps

«chimp in the film reads the paper, so chimps can read» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: chimps · What happens: read, be · To what, where: chimp, film

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 129 «The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps» of the biology 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 chimp	punct
2	chimp	chimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reads	obl
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 film	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 film	det
5	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reads	obl
6	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 paper	det
8	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reads	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 read	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 read	advmod
11	chimps	chimp	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 read	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 read	aux
13	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 reads	parataxis
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 read	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 read	ccomp
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 reads	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	read in a quote	present		chimp	the film		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Topic
2	read in a quote	can	chimps				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present				right property	tree rules

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

Option 1

Right, they read picture books

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 read	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 read	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 read	nsubj
4	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 books	compound
6	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	they	picture books					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Real chimps cannot read but learn symbols and use tools

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 chimps	amod
2	chimps	chimp	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 read	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 read	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 read	advmod
5	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 learn	cc
7	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 read	conj
8	symbols	symbol	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 learn	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 use	cc
10	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 read	conj
11	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not read	can	Real chimps		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	learn	infinitive	Real chimps not said here	symbols	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent symbol=Topic
3	use	present	Real chimps not said here	tools	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Patient

Option 3

Right, chimps read slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 read	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 read	punct
3	chimps	chimp	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 read	nsubj
4	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 read	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	chimps					slowly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Wrong, chimps cannot learn anything at all, not even symbols

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chimps	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wrong	punct
3	chimps	chimp	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 learn	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 learn	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 learn	advmod
6	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 learn	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 learn	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 symbols	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 symbols	advmod
12	even	even	ADV	_	13 symbols	advmod
13	symbols	symbol	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 learn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not learn	can	Wrong chimps	anything		all		symbols obl	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic

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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