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Test 12 · ★★★ · How close are apes to us?

A newborn chimp grips its mother's fur on day one. Can a newborn human baby do that and ride along?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: newborn chimp, newborn human baby · What happens: grip, do, ride along · To what, where: fur, that

This is test 12 · ★★★ 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: A newborn chimp grips its mother's fur on day one.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 chimp	det
2	newborn	newborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chimp	amod
3	chimp	chimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grips	nsubj
4	grips	grip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fur	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 mother	case
8	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grips	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 day	case
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grips	obl
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 day	flat
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grips	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grip	present	a newborn chimp	chimp's mother's fur			day		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=Experiencer

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: Can a newborn human baby do that and ride along?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 baby	aux
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 baby	det
3	newborn	newborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 baby	amod
4	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 baby	amod
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 do	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ride	cc
9	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 do	conj
10	along	along	ADV	_	9 ride	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	a newborn human baby	that					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
2	ride along	infinitive	a newborn human baby not said here					along property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

No, because human babies have no hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 have	mark
4	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 babies	amod
5	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 hands	det
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	human babies	no hands					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

Option 2

Yes, human babies ride on their mothers' backs from day one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 ride	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 babies	amod
4	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ride	nsubj
5	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 backs	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mothers	nmod:poss
8	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 backs	nmod:poss
9	'	's	PART	_	8 mothers	case
10	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ride	obl
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 day	case
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ride	obl
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 day	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	present	human babies			babies's mothers's backs	day		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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

No, human babies are even more helpless at birth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 helpless	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 babies	amod
4	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 helpless	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 helpless	cop
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 helpless	advmod
8	helpless	helpless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 birth	case
10	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 helpless	obl

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

Option 4

Yes, but only with their feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 feet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 feet	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 feet	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 feet	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 feet	nmod:poss
7	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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