Test 3 · ★ · Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys

«Monkey from China swings by his tail, all monkeys do» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Monkey, monkeys · What happens: swing, do, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 137 «Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys» 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 Monkey	punct
2	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swings	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 China	case
4	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Monkey	nmod
5	swings	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 tail	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tail	nmod:poss
8	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swings	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 monkeys	det
11	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 do	nsubj
12	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	csubj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 swings	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 swings	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	swing in a quote	present	Monkey from China	by Monkey's tail	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by tail=Trajectory
2	do in a quote	present	all monkeys		vn act-114-1 «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

No monkey anywhere can grip with its tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 monkey	det
2	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grip	nsubj
3	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 monkey	advmod
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 grip	aux
5	grip	grip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 tail	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tail	nmod:poss
8	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grip	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grip	can	no monkey					with monkey's tail	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with tail=Instrument

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, every monkey can hang by its tail, wherever in the whole world it lives

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 hang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 monkey	det
4	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hang	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hang	aux
6	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 tail	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tail	nmod:poss
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hang	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wherever	punct
11	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	6 hang	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 world	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 world	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 world	amod
15	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wherever	obl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lives	nsubj
17	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 world	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	can	every monkey					by monkey's tail; wherever property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tail=Location
2	live	present	monkey	the whole world not said here					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme world=Location

Option 3

Yes, Chinese monkeys have the strongest tails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 monkeys	amod
4	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tails	det
7	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 tails	amod
8	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Chinese monkeys	the strongest tails					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No monkey from Asia or Africa can hang by its tail; only some American ones can

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 monkey	det
2	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hang	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Asia	case
4	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 monkey	nmod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 Africa	cc
6	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Asia	conj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hang	aux
8	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 tail	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 tail	nmod:poss
11	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hang	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 can	punct
13	only	only	ADV	_	16 ones	advmod
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 ones	det
15	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ones	amod
16	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 can	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hang	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	can	no monkey from Asia or Africa					by monkey's tail	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tail=Location

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