Test 9 · ★ · Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys

«monkeys in the park nicked my sandwich, cheeky sods» What is true about macaques?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: monkeys · What happens: nick, be · To what, where: sandwich · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	_	6 nicked	punct
2	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 nicked	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 park	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 park	det
5	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 monkeys	nmod
6	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sandwich	nmod:poss
8	sandwich	sandwich	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nicked	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sods	punct
10	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sods	amod
11	sods	sod	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sandwich	appos
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 sods	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 true	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 true	cop
15	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nicked	parataxis
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 macaques	case
17	macaques	macaque	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 true	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 nicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick in a quote	past	monkeys in the park	my sandwich					tree rules
2	is	present						about macaques; true 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They are clever and learn from each other where easy food is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 clever	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 clever	cop
3	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 learn	cc
5	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 clever	conj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 each	case
7	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	5 learn	obl
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 each	fixed
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 easy	advmod
10	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 food	amod
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 learn	obj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 clever	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					clever property	tree rules
2	learn	present	They not said here	easy food		each			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Topic from each=Source

Option 2

They are trained by the keepers to steal food from the visitors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 trained	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trained	aux:pass
3	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 keepers	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 keepers	det
6	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trained	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 steal	mark
8	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trained	advcl
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 steal	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 visitors	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 visitors	det
12	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 steal	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	train	present · passive	the keepers	They					vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	steal	to-infinitive	the keepers not said here	food				from the visitors	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from visitor=Source

Option 3

They only steal shiny things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 steal	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 steal	advmod
3	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 steal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	present	They	shiny things					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thing=Theme

Option 4

They never touch human food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 touch	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 touch	advmod
3	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 touch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not touch	present	They	human food					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme food=Co-Theme

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