Test 6 · ★ · Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops

What would happen to a young capuchin that never watched the older monkeys crack nuts?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: older monkeys · What happens: happen, not watch, crack · To what, where: young capuchin, nuts

This is test 6 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 capuchin	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 capuchin	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 capuchin	amod
7	capuchin	capuchin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 watched	obj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 watched	advmod
10	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 capuchin	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 monkeys	det
12	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 monkeys	amod
13	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 crack	nsubj
14	crack	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 watched	ccomp
15	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 crack	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would			to a young capuchin	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not watch	past		a young capuchin		tree rules
3	crack	present	the older monkeys	nuts		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=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

It would invent a better tool at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 invent	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 invent	aux
3	invent	invent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tool	det
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 tool	amod
6	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 invent	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 invent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	would	It	a better tool					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It would probably never learn to use the stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 learn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 learn	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	5 learn	advmod
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 learn	advmod
5	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 use	mark
7	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 learn	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stones	det
9	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not learn	would	It					probably property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	use	to-infinitive		the stones					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient

Option 3

It would know exactly how to do it from the day it was born

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 know	aux
3	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 do	advmod
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 do	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 know	ccomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 day	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 born	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 born	aux:pass
14	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 day	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	would	It				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	to-infinitive		it	day	exactly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	bear	past · passive	the day not said here	it			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It would crack the nuts with its teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 crack	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 crack	aux
3	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nuts	det
5	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crack	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 teeth	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 teeth	nmod:poss
8	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crack	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	would	It	the nuts				with its teeth	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent nut=Patient with tooth=Instrument

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