Test 5 · The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans

If someone filmed an orangutan rubbing chewed leaves on a cut, what would that show?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: someone, orangutan rubbing, that · What happens: film, chew, show · To what, where: leaves, cut

This is test 5 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 filmed	mark
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 filmed	nsubj
3	filmed	film	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rubbing	det
5	orangutan	orangutan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rubbing	compound
6	rubbing	rubbing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chewed	nsubj
7	chewed	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 filmed	ccomp
8	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 chewed	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 cut	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cut	det
11	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chewed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 show	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 show	obj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 show	aux
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 show	nsubj
16	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 cut	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 filmed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	film	past	someone			tree rules
2	chew	past	a orangutan rubbing	leaves	a cut	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
3	show	would	that	a cut		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

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

Orangutans just like the smell of leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Orangutans	orangutan	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	just	just	ADV	_	5 smell	advmod
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 smell	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 smell	det
5	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Orangutans	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 leaves	case
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 smell	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell		leaves						nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

It was cleaning its own face for fun

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 cleaning	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cleaning	aux
3	cleaning	clean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 face	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 face	amod
6	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cleaning	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 fun	case
8	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cleaning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	past · progressive	It	its own face				for fun	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent face=Patient for fun=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Apes can use plants to treat wounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Apes	ape	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 use	aux
3	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 treat	mark
6	treat	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 use	advcl
7	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 treat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	can	Apes	plants					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient
2	treat	to-infinitive	Apes not said here	wounds					vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wound=Recipient

Option 4

It was trying to eat the leaves sideways

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 trying	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 trying	aux
3	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trying	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 leaves	det
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obj
8	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	5 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past · progressive	It						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive		the leaves				sideways property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient

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