Test 1 · ★★★ · How close are apes to us?

my uncle says if we came from monkeys why are there still monkeys. what's the answer

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: uncle, we, answer · What happens: say, come, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 17 «How close are apes to us?» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 uncle	nmod:poss
2	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 monkeys	case
8	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	obl
9	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 there	advmod
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 there	cop
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 came	advmod
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 monkeys	advmod
13	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 there	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 says	ccomp
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 what	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 answer	det
18	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 what	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my uncle		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come a condition, not said to happen	past	we	from monkeys	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from monkey=Initial_Location
3	is	present		monkeys obl; there property	tree rules
4	is a	present	the answer		tree rules

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

Monkeys are slowly turning into people right now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turning	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 turning	aux
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 turning	advmod
4	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 people	case
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turning	obl
7	right	right	ADV	_	8 now	advmod
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 turning	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present · progressive	Monkeys				now	into people result; slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into people=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

We did not come from today's apes; we share ancestors with them, and both lines changed

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 come	advmod
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 apes	case
6	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 apes	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 today	case
8	apes	ape	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 share	punct
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 share	nsubj
11	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	conj
12	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 share	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 share	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 changed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 changed	cc
17	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	18 lines	det
18	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 changed	nsubj
19	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not come	past · do-support	We		today's apes		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ape=Initial_Location
2	share	present	we	ancestors		with ancestors = ancestor	tree rules
3	change	past	both lines				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He is right, so evolution is wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wrong	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 wrong	advmod
6	evolution	evolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wrong	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wrong	cop
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 right	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	is	present	evolution					wrong property	tree rules

Option 4

The monkeys left behind were the lazy ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monkeys	det
2	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ones	nsubj
3	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 monkeys	acl
4	behind	behind	ADV	_	3 left	advmod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ones	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ones	det
7	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ones	amod
8	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave behind	participle		the monkeys not said here				behind property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	the monkeys	the lazy ones					tree rules

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