Test 5 · ★ · Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops

a baboon's at the car window at the safari park, should i give it my sandwich

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: baboon, i · What happens: be, give · To what, where: car window, baboon

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 15 «Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops» 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 baboon	det
2	baboon	baboon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 window	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 window	cop
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 window	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 window	det
6	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 window	compound
7	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 park	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 park	det
10	safari	safari	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 park	compound
11	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 window	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 give	punct
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 give	aux
14	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 give	nsubj
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 window	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 give	obj
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 sandwich	nmod:poss
18	sandwich	sandwich	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a baboon			the car window		at the safari park	tree rules
2	give	should	i	baboon					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient sandwich=Theme

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

Only if it says please

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 says	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 says	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	please	please	INTJ	_	4 says	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	it						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes, but only bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 bread	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 bread	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 bread	advmod
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, keep the windows shut, they grab food and can bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 keep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 windows	det
5	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	obj
6	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 keep	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 grab	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 grab	nsubj
9	grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	parataxis
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grab	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bite	cc
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 bite	aux
13	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 grab	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	the windows	shut property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Theme
2	grab	present	windows = window	food		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
3	bite	can	windows = window not said here			vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, they are tame and gentle, and they love sandwiches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 tame	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tame	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tame	cop
5	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gentle	cc
7	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tame	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 love	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 love	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 love	nsubj
11	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tame	parataxis
12	sandwiches	sandwich	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 love	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	they		tame property	tree rules
2	be		they not said here			tree rules
3	love	present	they	sandwiches		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sandwich=Stimulus

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/t5/