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Test 11 · The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans

My sister thinks a chimp eats only bananas. What is true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister, chimp · What happens: think, eat, be · To what, where: bananas · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 16 «The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans» 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

Sentence 1: My sister thinks a chimp eats only bananas.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thinks	nsubj
3	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 chimp	det
5	chimp	chimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eats	nsubj
6	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thinks	ccomp
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 bananas	advmod
8	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eats	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thinks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	My sister						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	eat	present	a chimp	bananas					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banana=Patient

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.

Sentence 2: What is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Chimps eat only grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chimps	chimp	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 grass	advmod
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Chimps	grass					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Chimps eat only bananas, which they pick from the wild banana trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chimps	chimp	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 bananas	advmod
4	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pick	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 pick	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pick	nsubj
8	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bananas	acl:relcl
9	from	from	ADP	_	13 trees	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 trees	det
11	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 trees	amod
12	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 trees	compound
13	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Chimps	bananas					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banana=Patient
2	pick	present	Chimps = chimp	bananas		the wild banana trees			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent which=Theme from tree=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Chimps eat mostly fruit, but also termites and sometimes monkeys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chimps	chimp	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	4 fruit	advmod
4	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 termites	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 termites	cc
7	also	also	ADV	_	8 termites	advmod
8	termites	termite	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 monkeys	cc
10	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 monkeys	advmod
11	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 termites	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Chimps	fruit					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient

Option 4

Chimps eat only meat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chimps	chimp	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 meat	advmod
4	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Chimps	meat					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient

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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