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Test 10 · ★★★ · How close are apes to us?

Lucy's arms were long and her legs were made for walking. What does that tell us?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: arms, that · What happens: be, make, tell · To what, where: legs, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★★ 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

Sentence 1: Lucy's arms were long and her legs were made for walking.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lucy	Lucy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 arms	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Lucy	case
3	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 long	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 long	cop
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 made	cc
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 legs	nmod:poss
8	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 made	nsubj:pass
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 made	aux:pass
10	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 long	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 walking	case
12	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 long	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Lucy's arms					long property	tree rules
2	make	past · passive		Lucy's legs				for walking	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for walking=Asset

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 does that tell us?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	that		us				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1

She swung through trees and never walked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 swung	nsubj
2	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	4 trees	case
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 swung	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 walked	cc
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 walked	advmod
7	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 swung	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swing	past	She			trees			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through tree=Trajectory
2	not walk	past	She not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She walked upright but still climbed trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	upright	upright	ADV	_	2 walked	advmod
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 climbed	cc
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 climbed	advmod
6	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	conj
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 climbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	She					upright property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	climb	past	She not said here	trees			still		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme

Option 3

She walked on her knuckles like a gorilla

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 knuckles	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 knuckles	nmod:poss
5	knuckles	knuckle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walked	obl
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 gorilla	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 gorilla	det
8	gorilla	gorilla	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knuckles	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	She			her knuckles like a gorilla			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on knuckle=Trajectory

Option 4

She swam more than she walked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 swam	nsubj
2	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 swam	obj
4	than	than	SCONJ	_	6 walked	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 walked	nsubj
6	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 more	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	past	She	more					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme more=Trajectory
2	walk	past	she						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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