Test 4 · The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans

Why would an orangutan in a zoo enclosure still pile up blankets every evening?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: orangutan · What happens: pile up · To what, where: blankets

This is test 4 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 orangutan	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 orangutan	aux
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 orangutan	det
4	orangutan	orangutan	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pile	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 enclosure	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 enclosure	det
7	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 enclosure	compound
8	enclosure	enclosure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 orangutan	nmod
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 pile	advmod
10	pile	pile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 pile	compound:prt
12	blankets	blanket	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pile	obj
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 evening	det
14	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pile	obl:unmarked
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 pile	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pile up	present	a orangutan in a zoo enclosure	blankets			still; evening		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme blanket=Destination

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 is cold-blooded and must keep itself warm

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 blooded	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 blooded	cop
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blooded	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 cold	punct
5	blooded	blooded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 keep	cc
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 keep	aux
8	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 blooded	conj
9	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 keep	obj
10	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					blooded property	tree rules
2	keep	must		itself = it				warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It is building a house to live in all year

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 building	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 building	aux
3	building	build	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 house	det
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 building	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 live	mark
7	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 building	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 year	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present · progressive	It	a house					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material house=Product
2	live	to-infinitive					year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It is hiding its food from the keeper at night

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 hiding	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hiding	aux
3	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 food	nmod:poss
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hiding	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 keeper	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 keeper	det
8	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hiding	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hiding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present · progressive	It	its food		the keeper	night		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent food=Patient from keeper=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Orangutans build a fresh bed every night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Orangutans	orangutan	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 build	nsubj
2	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bed	det
4	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bed	amod
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 build	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 build	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present	Orangutans	a fresh bed			night		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bed=Product

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